Aquilegia berg

Nodding, sweetly fragrant flowers for a long period from spring.

Commonly known as green columbine, this is the purple form.Compact and nicely tinted chocolate like leaves too.  From forests, grassy slopes, valleys, stream banks and wet places in China, Japan and Russia (Siberia).

This columbine is a shorter version of A. vulgaris, and I have named it incorrectly in the past. I believe it is in fact the green flowered form in purple?  sHowever this is still a wonderful garden plant that breeds true, so let it sow about to make graceful clumps. Flowering early, it is short and has both lovely

maroon/purple flowers with short spurs and cute little petals set. These are set upon and maroon tinted stems and leaf margins most prominent in spring, so it makes quite a show at all times, largely evergreen here too.