Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, Colaimbín
Photos: garden escapes Inchigeelagh, Co.Cork

Columbine / Granny's Bonnet
Aquilegia vulgaris
Colaimbín
Family: Ranunculaceae

Flowering time: May-July. Perennial. Native / introduced.

Nodding, spurred flowers have 5 petals and 5 petal-like sepals are followed by long sticky-hairy fruit. The native plant has blue flowers with hooked spurs but cultivated forms can be blue, deep purple-blue, pink or white and often have long, straight spurs. Leaves are twice-trifoliate with lobed leaflets. Height 35-80cm

Prefers calcareous ground. A rare native in central Ireland but also widespread in Ireland as an introduced garden escape on roadsides, waste ground and walls.

Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, Colaimbín

Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, Colaimbín
Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, Colaimbín

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