| Scientific Name: | Aquilegia (hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | hybrid columbine |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Attract beneficial insects, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Odd-pinnate, Biternate, Obovate, Orbicular, Incised, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Yellow, Blue, Violet, Pink, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, (bi-)pinnately compound, most 12-15cm long, leaflets obovate-orbicular, 2-5cm wide, lobed margin (some further divided into pinnae); flowers radially symmetrical, petals 5, each with a broad lip (lamina) and hooked or straight spurs directed along the petiole (often the same colour as the large petal-like sepals); fruit an aggregate of 5-15 follicles. | |