Aquilegia canadensis
Wild Columbine
Several semi-pendent, bell-shaped flowers with yellow sepals and red spurs. Fern-like dark green foliage.
Growing & Maintenance Tips
Does well in partial shade in well-drained soil. Great in rock ledges, rocky slopes in woods, ravines, bluffs.
Interesting Information
Aquilegia, Latin, either from aquila, "eagle" for the floral spurs, or from aqua, "water" & legere, "to collect", for the fluid in the hollow spurs. This is a good cutflower, and attracts hummingbirds.
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Zizia aptera(Heart-Leaved Golden Alexanders ) |
Bouteloua curtipendula(Sideoats Grama ) |
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