A seedling strain from an especially robust population of this Southwestern US native Columbine. Big soft yellow flowers with characteristic extra-long spurs somehow manages to meld flash and whimsy. Easy and very nice in the garden.  A Plant Select introduction out of Denver.

When this columbine blooms, I feel like I would imagine I would feel if I had a 4 year old daughter with flowing blonde tresses that we had dressed in her first real dress and shiny shoes.  Delicate in appearance yet possessed of that resiliency of childhood, this has impossibly long spurred yellow flowers.

Collected by Daniel Winkler from Tibet, we previously erroneously listed this primitive Columbine as Semiaquilegia adoxoides - thanks to Bob Nold for keeping us honest!. This spurless Columbine has dainty downturned pink-cupped flowers in late spring and early summer. Widespread in China.