This lovely native plant has beautiful, lacy, light-green leaves that form a loose basal rosette. Nodding yellow and red flowers gracefully tower over the plant in spring; flowers continue sporadically through the summer. This self-sowing columbine is an outstanding understory woodland wildflower for late spring color, where it brings unique color to the native garden. Classified into the buttercup family, columbines have complex flowers including five petals with long spurs. This is the only species native to the states east of the Mississippi River.