Eastern Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis This graceful bicolor columbine is a widespread native from Florida to Nova Scotia and westward to Minnesota and Tennessee. Easy to grow and long blooming, these adaptable, semi-evergreen plants produce mounded, attractive, lobed foliage 1-1 ½ feet wide. In spring and summer, 2 foot tall stems topped with nodding red and yellow blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies. The plants drop their seed from interesting-looking pods in late summer and readily naturalize in showy colonies. Hardy in zones 3-9. Approximately 735 seeds per gram. Germination code: (6)