• Blue Star Columbine has fancy-lobed, dusky blue-green leaves and blue and white spurred flowers. Blue Star Columbine is highly attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies. Blue Star Columbine is a wonderful addition to the summer border and will flower all summer if deadheaded. Blue Star Columbine is a remarkably beautiful, superb domesticated wildflower for the shady garden in spring to early summer. With violet-blue petals with a pure white corolla, the flowers have elegant long spurs and tidy mounds of fern-like foliage.

• Botanical Name: Aquilegia caerulea

• Life Cycle: Perennial

• Light Requirement: Full Sun, Partial Shade

• Planting Season: Spring, Fall

• Plant Type: North American Native, Clumping Habit, Long Spurred, Two-Toned Star-Like Flowers

• Features: Heirloom, Attracts Pollinators, Rabbit Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Poor Soil Tolerant

• Color: Blue, White

• Blooms: Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Summer

• Days to Maturity: 73 Days

• Plant Height: 24-32 inches

• Plant Spacing: 8-10 inches

• Planting Depth: Surface Sowing - Press Seeds Slightly Into the Soil

• Sowing Method: Direct Sow

• Cold Stratification: Yes

• Hardiness Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9