| Description | A very different looking Columbine flower with dark blue flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (ack-wi-LEE-gee-a)(vul-GAH-ris) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Sunlight | full sun, best in moderate shade, partial shade |
| Moisture | average, to moist, most don't like dry |
| Soil & Site | average, moist, well drained in important |
| Flowers | dark blue, nodding, small very small spurs, often considered spurless, produced in abundance |
| Leaves | held in groups of three (ternate), on long petioles, green to blue gray color |
| Dimensions | 2 plus feet tall |
| Maintenance | As the foliage gets shabby and leaf minors invade the leaves, cut back the plant. It will respond with fresh foliage and few flowers in the fall. Leaf minors won't kill the plant they just create yellow streaks in the leaves |
| Propagation | seed, respondes to cold treatment, 6-8 weeks in the frig |
| Misc Facts | This plant is listed as A. vulgaris var stella and var clematiflora. Stellata is probably the correct taxonomic name. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #176-Aquilegia (Robert Nord) |
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