Columbine - Aquilegia vulgari, species information page

Violet / Blue Columbine - Aquilegia vulgari, click for a larger photo

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgari, click for a larger photo

White Columbine - Aquilegia vulgari, click for a larger photo

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris
Also known as - Aquilegia, Granny's bonnet, Culverwort, European Crowfoot

Known as Aquilegia or Columbine, a perennial growing to 50cm (19in) high, native to The UK an Europe. Grey - green leaves comprise three, 3-9 lobed leaflets, with the upper stem leaves being smaller and less divided. Bonnet-shaped flowers are 30-40mm (1.2-1.6in) long, stalked and pendent, usually blue or violet in colour for native plants and sometimes rarely white or pink (garden escapes), petals elongated into curved spurs. Flowers from May to July. Grows in deciduous lowland to highland woods and damp shady places, localised in many parts of Britain and Ireland. Often cultivated in flower gardens, along with some Siberian and North-American species.

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