Red Columbine Aquilegia canadensis

Aquilegia canadensis: Red Columbine's wonderful flowers appear mid-spring to early summer, with spurs at the back that are generous with nectar, luring hummingbirds, butterflies, and long-tongued bees. Its distinctive red flowers dance and wobble in the slightest breeze. A hardy perennial in Zones 3 to 9, it thrives in partial shade. It can be grown in full sun, but it would benefit from even more soil moisture. The flowers are followed by decorative seed pods that dry and begin to shed their contents in late summer. Flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds, as well as some species of warblers and orioles in the summer months.

Perennial

Average seeds per gram: 919.