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Aquilegia lactiflora

Aquilegia lactiflora
Photo: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin. http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/, CC BY-SA 3.0

Aquilegia lactiflora is a perennial columbine from Central Asia and the Himalayas, growing 40 to 80 cm tall with white to cream flowers from May to August. It is grown for its pale, nodding blooms and does best in cool conditions with some shade.

Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Moist, well-drained, humus-rich loam.
Temperature
10–22 °C; tolerates hard frost and does poorly in sustained heat above about 27 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
C. Asia to NW. Xinjiang and W. Pakistan
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Aquilegia lactiflora is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Central Asia and the Himalayas.

Where it grows

The species is native to Central Asia and the Himalayas, recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, northwest Xinjiang, and in Jammu and Kashmir in India. It grows in shaded rocky habitats and grassy slopes.

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 lactiflora 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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