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Aquilegia vulgaris
3-642.11.07Names: Latin for eagle; Latin Aqua for water and lego to collect; Culverwort, Saxon culfre meaning pigeon and wyrt for plant; Columba, the Latin word for dove.
English: Culverwort; Garden Columbine; Common Columbine; Meeting Houses; Venus Plant; Jack-in-Trousers; Mary’s Bells; Granny’s Bonnet; European Crowfoot.
French: Ancolie commun.
German: Fairy’s Glove; Venus Carriage; Women’s Little Shoe; Love Plant.
Italian: Amornascento; Perfetto amore.
Source: Barbara Seideneck.
Content: cyanogenic glycoside, flavonoid c-glycoside malonate, isocystososide, flavonoid emulsin, tannin, aquilegine, vitamin C, an unspecified alkaloid and sphingolipid desaturase.
Culture: Freya, goddess of crops, birth, sensuality, love, loved music, spring, flowers and elves, the most gracious and beautiful of all the goddesses; symbolism of love, fertility, sexual imagery, secret love and seduction, inconsistency and fickleness, desertion and folly; Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet giving a bouquet containing columbines to King Claudius for his ingratitude and infidelity.
English: Culverwort; Garden Columbine; Common Columbine; Meeting Houses; Venus Plant; Jack-in-Trousers; Mary’s Bells; Granny’s Bonnet; European Crowfoot.
French: Ancolie commun.
German: Fairy’s Glove; Venus Carriage; Women’s Little Shoe; Love Plant.
Italian: Amornascento; Perfetto amore.
Source: Barbara Seideneck.
Content: cyanogenic glycoside, flavonoid c-glycoside malonate, isocystososide, flavonoid emulsin, tannin, aquilegine, vitamin C, an unspecified alkaloid and sphingolipid desaturase.
Culture: Freya, goddess of crops, birth, sensuality, love, loved music, spring, flowers and elves, the most gracious and beautiful of all the goddesses; symbolism of love, fertility, sexual imagery, secret love and seduction, inconsistency and fickleness, desertion and folly; Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet giving a bouquet containing columbines to King Claudius for his ingratitude and infidelity.