Aquilegia vulgaris   Columbine

 

 

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Typically growing on calcarareous soils in the wild this plant also escapes from gardens. The gaudy colured ones are escapes while the native plant tends to have blue or white flowers. The wild plants also have hooked spurs while graden varieties oftne have lomg elegant straight spurs.

Great Orme Woodland, 7th May 2005

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