Aquilegia einseleana, or Einsele's columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the eastern Alps.

It has 1–3 (rarely up to 6) nodding blue-violet flowers of 2.5–4.0 cm (0.98–1.57 in) in diameter, with straight or slightly incurved spurs of around 9 mm (0.35 in).

The two species are estimated to have diverged from each other in the Pliocene around 1.23 million years ago, and form a sister clade to one containing the other European and some North and East Asian species of Aquilegia, from which they diverged approximately 2.5 million years ago.

[6] Aquilegia einseleana is native to the central and eastern Alps of Slovenia, Bavaria in Germany,[7] Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and Veneto in Italy,[8] and Austria.

[2] It grows in grassy and rocky limestone areas[9] at altitudes of 600–1,800 m (2,000–5,900 ft), in the montane to subalpine zones.