| Bulgarian columbine | |
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| Flowers of Aquilegia nigricans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus: | Aquilegia |
| Species: | A. nigricans |
| Binomial name | |
| Aquilegia nigricans | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Aquilegia nigricans, the Bulgarian columbine, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to central and southeastern Europe. [1] [2]
Aquilegia nigricans has nodding, dark brownish-purple flowers, dark purple stems covered with downy hair, and biternate basal leaves. [3]
The specific epithet nigricans means "blackish" or "swarthy" in Latin, referring to the colour of the flowers.
Aquilegia nigricans is native to several non-contiguous, mainly mountainous areas in the eastern Alps, the Carpathian Mountains, and the southern and eastern Balkans. It is found in Slovenia, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Greece, [1] and in small areas of southeastern Poland, [4] eastern Slovakia, [4] northwestern Croatia, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Hungary, Serbia, and western Ukraine. [1] Reports of specimens in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy are thought to have been erroneous. [5]
As of November 2024 [update] , Aquilegia nigricans was listed as Data deficient (DD) by the IUCN Red List. This status was last assessed on 27 March 2014. [1]
