There are around 70 species of graceful clump forming perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur from meadows, open woodlands, and mountainous areas in Europe, North America, and temperate regions of Asia. \u00a0Columbine comes from the Latin word for dove, as the flowers were thought to resemble a cluster of doves. \u00a0They produce basal rosettes of long stalked deeply 3-lobed or ternate to 3 ternate often blue-green or blue-gray fern like leaves the leaflets are mostly egg shape or rounded wedge shaped at the bases often shallowly or deeply divided into 2 or 3 lobes. \u00a0In late spring and early summer distinctively spurred bell shaped flowers usually 1-4\u201d long with colorful tepals and spurred petals are carried singly or in short panicles on branching leafy stems.<\/p>\n
These frost hardy plants prefer moist but well-drained light soil enriched with manure in full sun or partial shade. \u00a0Grow alpine species in gritty, humus-rich, and moist but sharply drained soil in full sun. \u00a0\u00a0Protect from strong winds and in hot areas provide some shade.<\/p>\n
Contact with sap may irritate skin. \u00a0Some used as cut flowers or in rock gardens.<\/p>\n
Prone to powdery mildew, rust<\/i><\/em>\u00a0in dry summers, fungal leaf spots, Ascochyta<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and Septoria<\/i><\/em>, Southern blight, aphids, leaf miners<\/i><\/em>, and damage from caterpillars.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Aquilegia elegantula<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Found in the Rocky Mountains and North Mexico it grows to 24\u201d tall. \u00a0It bears pale orange or yellow flowers with long spurs.<\/p>\n Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aquilegia \u2013 Columbine There are around 70 species of graceful clump forming perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur from meadows, open woodlands, and mountainous areas in Europe, North America, and temperate regions of Asia. \u00a0Columbine comes from the Latin word for dove, as the flowers were thought to resemble a cluster of doves. \u00a0They produce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[19,21,32,41,23,34,31,20],"product_tag":[92],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254513"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}