(Dwarf Fan Columbine, Mini Star Columbine)

The pretty Mini Star fan columbine is a small clump-forming alpine that’s well adapted to partial sun. It is a Japanese native that forms an attractive small mound of blue-green foliage. The delicate leaves are three-parted with scalloped edges. Despite its small size it offers a nice floral show.

Many short-stemmed blooms rise from the center of the clump in late spring. The nodding, broad-petaled flowers look like butterflies in flight and are commonly have blue outer petals and white inner...

(Dwarf Fan Columbine)

Members of the Cameo Series are a collection of super dwarf fan columbines that bloom for a longer period than most. They also boast larger flowers and more vigorous plants.

Fan columbine is a small clump-forming alpine that’s well adapted to partial sun. It is a Japanese native that forms an attractive small mound of blue-green foliage. The delicate leaves are three-parted with scalloped edges. Despite its small size it offers a big floral show, especially those in the Cameo Series.

Many...

(Dwarf Fan Columbine)

This sweet fan columbine is smaller than average and commonly sold under the name 'Nana.'

Fan columbine is a small clump-forming alpine perennial that’s well adapted to partial sun. It is a Japanese native that forms an attractive small mound of blue-green foliage. The delicate leaves are three-parted with scalloped edges. Despite its small size it offers a nice floral show.

Many short-stemmed blooms rise from the center of the clump in late spring. The nodding, broad-petaled flowers look...

(Dwarf Fan Columbine)

This sweet white-flowered fan columbine is smaller than average and commonly sold under the names Aquilegia flabellata 'Nana Alba' or Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila f. alba.

Fan columbine is a small clump-forming alpine perennial that’s well adapted to partial sun. It is a Japanese native that forms an attractive small mound of blue-green foliage. The delicate leaves are three-parted with scalloped edges. Despite its small size it offers a nice floral show....

(Dwarf Fan Columbine, Silver Edge Columbine)

The sweet violet-blue and white flowered fan columbine 'Silver Edge' has variegated foliage that stands out most early in the season and fades as the summer progresses.

Fan columbine is a small clump-forming alpine perennial that’s well adapted to partial sun. It is a Japanese native that forms an attractive small mound of blue-green foliage streaked and edged with silvery white. The delicate leaves are three-parted and have scalloped edges. Despite its small size it offers a nice floral show....

(Western Columbine)

A larger look-alike of Canadian columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), the easy to grow western columbine is an airy, herbaceous perennial native to the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. In its native habitat it's found in rich moist forests, so it's quite shade tolerant and ideal for naturalistic woodland gardens. It has an open habit and elegant blooms.

Ferny clumps of lacy, three-parted leaves appear in spring, dying back to a few wisps in summer. In late spring to early summer,...

(Blue Limestone Columbine, Jone's Columbine)

The rare blue limstone columbine is an alpine, small, herbaceous perennial native to the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, Montana and Wyoming in westcentral North America. In its native habitat it's found in rocky crevices and screes in the higher mountain elevations. It has low, compact mounded habit and curiously elegant in and out of bloom.

In midsummer, it produces dainty, blue-violet to purple flowers with spurred nectaries that remain tucked in the tufts of foliage below. The leaves are...

(Columbine, Laramie Columbine)

Delicate, short-spurred, greenish white flowers cover this compact Native American columbine in summer. A rare alpine species that exists only in the Laramie Mountains, a Wyoming mountain group on the eastern edge of the Rockies, Laramie columbine thrives in moist, rocky crevices along open mountain faces. This is a species of concern, so be sure you obtain plants from reliable vendors offering nursery-grown stock.

Columbines are hardy, clump-forming perennials with thin, delicate leaves that...

(Columbine, Longspur Columbine)

Named and renowned for its exceptionally long-spurred yellow flowers, this elegant, hardy perennial comes from moist canyons and ravines in uplands of Texas, Arizona, and northern Mexico.

Ferny clumps of lacy, three-parted leaves appear in spring, dying back to a few wisps in summer. In early to midsummer, tall branched stems bear dainty, erect to horizontal flowers with five propeller-shaped petals, a starry collar of five pointed sepals, and five whiskery, spreading, 3- to 7-inch (7- to...

(Rock's Columbine)

Joseph Rock collected this richly colored columbine in the Szechwan region of China. Rock's columbine is an airy, herbaceous perennial found in Himalayan woodlands. It has an open habit and elegant look when in bloom with purple stems.

From late spring to summer, its tall purpled stems bear dainty, nodding, burgundy to purple flowers with prominent spurred nectaries and a central cup of short petals edged in white. These are subtended by delicate, ferny, three-parted leaves of soft green to bluish...