Index / Search / Aquilegia vulgaris
§1 Plant
Aquilegia vulgaris L.
vernacular European columbine — species · Ranunculaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ranunculaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Aquilegia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 154 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 154 counties across 17 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Chester 42029
- Columbia 42037
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AQVU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033191 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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