Thursday, April 8, 2010

Aquilegia vulgaris

Common Columbine(english)
Aguilena comun(spanish)
Native to europa growing to 1.2m high flowering from spring to half summer.Common Culumbine likes growing on wet grassy shaded places or places in forest with light.Common Columbine has been used in folklore medicine and carying the flowers was said to arouse the loved one.In herbalism these days is used as astringent and diuretic.Common Columbine does have medicinal uses but as a member of Ranunculus it is poisonous an it is dangerous to experiment with it.From Galicia

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