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Aquilegia HYBRIDS |
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Hybrid Columbine |
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 3-9 |
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Erect plant |
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1-3 feet by 12 inches spread |
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Flowers terminate the branch, hanging or erect
long hollow nectariferous backward-projecting spurs of
the 5 petals and 5 sepals, colored like the petals, usually
much shorter than the petal-spurs. Colors are red, pink,
yellow, blue, white, or purple. |
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Late spring to early summer |
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2-3 ternately compound apex of each leaflet
deeply incised, petiole long and softly pubescent.
Foliage has a gray-green color. |
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Serpentine and blotch leaf miners often disfigure the
leaves of columbine with their mines. Hand-picking or
spraying with insecticides when the mines are first seen
holds them in check. Columbine aphid and the
caterpillars of a skipper butterfly are occasional pests. |
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'Biedermeier Strain' - 12 inches tall, short-spurred flowers
that are white, pink, or purple. This cultivar has a
stiff growth habit.
- 'Crimson Star' - 30-36 inches. Crimson and white flowers.
- 'Dragonfly' - 18 inches tall plants with a mix of colors.
- 'Maxistar' - 24 inches, Primrose-yellow flowers.
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McKana
Hybrids - 30 inches, a popular strain, mixed colors.
- 'Mrs. Scott Eillot- 2-3 feet tall, mixed colors,
pastel shades.
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Music Series - 18-20 inches tall in 6 different colors.
Flowers are large with long spurs.
- 'Nora Barlow' - 2-2˝ feet cultivar has double
flowers that are pink and red, tinged with green.
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Song Bird Series - Known for its vibrant flower
colors. 24-30 inches tall.
- 'Snow Queen' - 30-36 inches, pure white flowers.
- 'Spring Song' - Large flowers with many petals approaching
a double character, multicolored, 30 inches.
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