Grow columbine plants in planting zones 3-9. There are columbine flowers native to many lands. A. canadensis, for instance, is native to the woods of eastern North America. It is a wildflower often remarked upon by hikers for its bluish-green foliage.
Daniel Webster was a US lawyer and politician who opposed the Mexican war, favored free trade then supported the new protective tariff. He abhorred slavery but sought compromise, and ended up as Secretary of State from 1850 - 52. He was one of America's greatest orators.
Noah Webster was in the sixth generation of his family in America. Noah Webster, Senior, Noah's father, was born in Hartford in 1722 and settled early in what was then called the West Division of Hartford (now known as West Hartford), and he lived to the ripe old age of 91.