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.

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.