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Aquilegia grata

Aquilegia grata
Photo: Orjen, CC BY-SA 3.0

Aquilegia grata is a perennial columbine from the northwestern Balkans, known for its mauve-purple nodding flowers with long nectar spurs. It is a wild species of the Dinaric Alps and is grown mainly by specialist gardeners, so cultivation advice is general rather than well documented.

Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich loam with neutral to slightly alkaline pH.
Temperature
10–25 °C; hardy to about -20 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Balkan Pen.
Climate
temperate

About

Aquilegia grata is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to the northwestern Balkans.

Where it grows

Aquilegia grata is endemic to the southeastern Dinaric Alps of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo.

Other Aquilegia plants

Aquilegia alpina · Aquilegia amaliae · Fan Columbine · Aquilegia apuana · Aquilegia aradanica · Aquilegia aragonensis · Dark Columbine · Aquilegia atrovinosa · Atwood's Columbine · Aquilegia aurea · Aquilegia ballii · Aquilegia baluchistanica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aquilegia grata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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