I had no idea columbine grew in Connecticut! This is wild red columbine aka rock bells aka aquilegia canadensis.
These plants were less than one foot tall, maybe 10 inches or so. The flowers were about 1-2 inches in length. There were just a few of these plants at one section of the trail.
I've never seen columbine in the wild before, so this was quite a treat!
The first time I heard about columbine, I was quite young - they are mentioned in "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When I saw the rather peculiar flowers in a Burpee catalog, I became a little bit obsessed with growing them. That didn't work out, oh well!
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