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| columbine |
any of several plants related to the buttercup, bearing varicolored flowers having five spurred petals. |
| Dutchman's-breeches |
an herb of eastern North America with finely divided leaves and yellow, pink, or whitish double-spurred flowers. |
| jewelweed |
any of several plants in the balsam family having spurred orange-yellow flowers and seedpods that burst open when ripe. |
| larkspur |
any of several plants that bear bright, spurred flowers in blue, pink, or white on an upright stalk; delphinium. |
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