About Aquilegia nigricans Baumg.
Aquilegia nigricans Baumg. produces nodding, dark brownish-purple flowers. Its stems are dark purple and covered in downy hair, and it has biternate basal leaves. This species is native to several separate, mostly mountainous regions that include the eastern Alps, the Carpathian Mountains, and the southern and eastern Balkans. It occurs in Slovenia, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Greece, as well as in small areas of southeastern Poland, eastern Slovakia, northwestern Croatia, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Hungary, Serbia, and western Ukraine. Claims of collected specimens from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy are considered erroneous.
