| Scientific Name: | Aquilegia vulgaris |
| Common Name: | European columbine |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Perennial border, Rock garden, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Bipinnate, Oblong, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Violet, Pink, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 45-90cm tall; leaves on stems divided into lobed leaflets and some of these to pinnae that are usually three-lobed at the tips; flowers radially symmetical, petals 5, each with a broad lip (lamina) and 5 short hooked spurs surrounding the petiole (often coloured the same shade as the large petal-like sepals). | |