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Aquilegia iulia, the Julian columbine, is a perennial columbine endemic to northwestern Slovenia, known for its large blue-violet flowers. It is a rare wild species of limestone slopes and is seldom grown in gardens, so care advice follows general columbine needs.
Aquilegia iulia, known as the Julian columbine, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Slovenia.
Aquilegia iulia is endemic to the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, growing on a wide ridge east of the mountain Krn and on the Trnovo Forest Plateau. It grows on calcareous rocky slopes and rock crevices at altitudes of 400–1,350 m (1,310–4,430 ft). It is also found in black pine and Scots pine forests, larch forests, beech forests, alpine meadows, and occasionally in gravel river beds of the Trebušica and Belca rivers.
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 iulia 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.
