...sometimes called the Colorado Blue Columbine and Rocky Mountain Blue Columbine, is the Colorado State Flower.

The Blue Columbine has legends of religious association. As columbine flowers age, the petals fall from the plant and each individual petal with spur attached resembled a slipper. The legend says columbine plants arose wherever Mary stepped on her way to visit her cousin Elizabeth, so sometimes columbine goes by the common name Our Lady's Shoes or the Virgin Mary's Shoes. Others see the columbine flower's resemblance to a dove as representing the Holy Spirit.