Aquilegia grata is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to the northwestern Balkans.

The flowers are mauve-purple and nodding or erect, with projecting stamens and a nectar spur measuring 16–18 mm (0.63–0.71 in).

[2][3] Aquilegia grata belongs to a clade containing most of the European columbine species, which appear to have diverged from their closest relatives in Asia in the early Pleistocene, a little over 2 million years ago.

[3] The species was first described by the Austrian botanist Albert Zimmeter (1848–1897) in 1875 from specimens collected by Joseph Karl Maly (1797–1866) from the Orjen mountain range in Montenegro in 1864, and populations were later found in other locations by Maly and others in the Dinaric Alps, although it has been questioned whether the specimens from locations other than Orjen are in fact A.

[citation needed] Aquilegia grata is endemic to the southeastern Dinaric Alps of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo.