Columbine

Columbine may refer to:

Flower

• Aquilegia, the genus of flowering plants known by the common name columbine, from which the other places and things called columbine take their names.

Places and events

• Columbine High School, a school in Columbine, Colorado
• Columbine High School massacre, a 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School
• Columbine Mine massacre, a 1927 mine strike and massacre at a coal mine at Serene, Colorado
• Columbine, Colorado, an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Colorado, near the cities of Denver and Littleton
• Columbine (Clark, Colorado), also known as Columbine Gold Camp, listed on the NRHP in Colorado

Art and entertainment

• Columbine (in Italian, Colombina) is a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte, Harlequin's mistress
• Columbine (book), the 2009 Edgar-Award winning bestseller about the massacre
• Bowling for Columbine, a 2002 film exploring the 1999 massacre and other violent acts in the United States
• Columbine (album), an album by Danish singer-songwriter Aura Dione
• "Columbine", a painting by Max Beckmann 1950
• Columbine, an upcoming 2012 miniseries based on the tragic events surrounding the deadly 1999 massacre as recounted in the 2009 book by Dave Cullen.

Vehicles

• Columbine, a locomotive of the Grand Junction Railway
• Columbine II and Columbine III, the Lockheed Constellation presidential aircraft used by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower
• HMS Columbine, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
• the Columbine (train), a passenger train operated by the Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific

Other

• Stiboges nymphidia, a metalmark butterfly commonly known as the Columbine
• Columbine, a racehorse, competitor in two Grand Nationals, finishing fifth in the 1842 Grand National
• columbine, an adjective related to the Dove