Aquilegia Atrata in between the showers

Aquilegia
From the Latin 'aquila', 'eagle', based on the view that the flowers look like an eagle swooping.
Atrata
The Latin word atrata means blackened or dingy but it is hard to see why this name should be applied to this brightly flowering plant.

Folklore and Facts
Lions eat the flowers in the spring to give them extra strength so rubbing the flowers in your hands will give you courage.  Perhaps because of its ability to produce miscarriage it is a symbol of folly and lost love. It is said that the seeds were ground up in wine to produce the correct strength to cause a miscarriage but it is not known whether this was to to keep the remedy mysterious and, thus, the province of the village witch.  As an aside, it is interesting to see that in most folktales a woman who uses an herbal remedy which proves efficacious is referred to as being wise whereas a remedy which results in harm is almost always administered by a witch