The blue columbine, Aquilegia coerulea, has the distinction of being the state flower, perhaps because it is one of the most beautiful and striking in the mountains. The central male and female ...

• Above treeline, pikas start making hay piles on the tundra as marmots sunbathe on mountain boulders. White-tailed ptarmigan chicks hunt for insects, and American pipits, white-crowned sparrows and ...

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Last summer a remarkable mutation of the blue columbine (Aquilegia cœrulea James) was discovered by Miss Madeline Gunn near the Smuggler Mine, in the vicinity of Ward, Colorado. Only a single plant ...