When it blooms
In bloom: May to June
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full shade
- Soil
- Dry, Moist
- Size
- 30–100 cm
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Native to
- Manitoba
What it feeds
Red Columbine is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Yellow-banded Bumble BeeSpecial concernBeeA once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
Photos: Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain
Plant it with
Other native plants the Yellow-banded Bumble Bee also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Red Columbine where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.