Name: Wild Columbine, Canada Columbine
Brand: NVK Nurseries
SKU: 79-PL50
Price: 7.0 CAD
Availability: OutOfStock

Aquilegia canadensis

A native columbine with nodding spurred flowers that attracts hummingbirds and naturalizes in woodland and rock garden settings.

Showy, nodding, bell-shaped flowers of pinkish-red and yellow
Attractive divided light green foliage
Naturalizing plant for rocky ledges or slopes and along woodland edges or ditches

Size

28 plugs per tray

1 litre

50 plugs per tray

9 cm Potted

$3.00

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Quantity

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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight

Full sun, Partial shade, Shade

Soil Moisture

Well-drained, Moist, Average

Drought Tolerant

✓

Hardiness Zone

3 – 3

Mature Height (meters)

0.4 – 0.5

Mature Spread (meters)

0.3 – 0.4

Growth Rate

Medium

Flower Colour

Red

Foliage Colour

Green

Bloom Time

Spring

Habit

Mounding

Pollinator Friendly

✓

Attracts Birds

✓

Ontario Native

✓

Landscape Uses

Rock garden

Growing & Maintenance Tips

Aquilegia is an easy-to-grow perennial, growing best in an average to moist, well-drained soil, in full sun to partial shade. Extended periods of drought may cause aquilegia to go into dormancy. Deadheading will help promote more blooms. They are somewhat susceptible to leaf miner and sawfly, which disfigure the foliage. As the plants usually wane in midsummer, it is safe to cut the flowers off, to prevent self-seeding.

Notes

Native to Ontario The name aquilegia is derived from the Latin root word "aquil" which means eagle, referring to the eagle's talon-like spurs on the flowers. Aboriginals crushed the glossy black seeds into a powder and mixed it with hot water to treat fevers and headaches.