SPECIAL USES. Rock walls and pavement.
Aquilegia Ranunculaceae Columbine
Hardy little perennials with two-or three-part leaves like clover but often cut or indented on the edge, and drooping or noddling flowers with flaring sepals and spurs of different sizes and shapes.
akitensis—Six-inch Japanese doll with stemless blue-green leaves and large lavender-blue flowers with yellow at the center. June flowers.
discolor—Alpine with glowing blue flowers, white inside and frosty-green leaves. Five inches tall.
flabellata nana-alba—fan columbine—Three divided leaves like blue-green fans, lustrous white flowers in May.
jonesi—Diminutive, two to three inches tall. Small leaves in small mounds, flowers upturned and deep blue in June.
saximontana—Alpine with two-inch tufts of crisp leaves; aquamarine flowers with yellowish sepals on four-inch stems in April.
CARE. Soil light and sandy, with leaf mold; drainage; shade or semishade. Hardy. Plant in fall.
PROPAGATION. Seeds in the spring (flowers the following year), division in the spring.