Aquilegia 'Tequila Sunrise' Picture: Features Scan
A. alpina is, as the name suggests, from the Alps, where it grows in shady woodland margins and among rocks. Found in the same region, but growing in meadows rather than higher up the slopes, is an aquilegia with almost black flowers, A. atrata. This is probably one of the parents used to create the fashionable "black-and-white" hybrids, two of which, A. vulgaris 'Magpie' and A. vulgaris 'William Guiness', are widely available as seed strains.
From further east, in the Himalayan foothills of Pakistan, northern India and Kashmir comes A. fragrans, one of the commonest columbines. Its pallid, creamy flowers, sometimes washed in pale blue, have a delicious pineapple-like scent. This variety lasts only two or three years in the garden and seed from cultivated plants is often contaminated after cross-pollination with other columbines. The resultant plants often lose the fabulous scent but, thankfully, plant explorers and botanists fairly frequently re-introduce unadulterated seed collected from the wild.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3299601/How-to-grow-aquilegia.html