Pheasant's eye
Adonis vernalis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- —
Ranunculaceae
Also called False hellebore, Spring pheasant's eye, Yellow pheasant's eye, Yellow pheasants-eye
Formerly Adonanthe vernalis, Adoniastrum vernale, Adonis dahurica, Adonis helleborus, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from World Plants, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from World Plants, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from World Plants, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from World Plants and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from World Plants, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Frühlingsadonisröschen, Frühlings-Adonis, Frühlings-Adonisröschen
- Russian
- стародубка, черногорка, Adonis pratensis
- Arabic
- أدونيس ربيعي
- Asturian
- adonis de primavera
- Azerbaijani
- Bahar xoruzgülü
- Bashkir
- Һары умырзая
- Bulgarian
- пролетен гороцвет
- Catalan
- Adonis de primavera
- Czech
- hlaváček jarní
- Chuvash
- Ăншăрт курăкĕ
- Danish
- Vår-Adonis
- Lower Sorbian
- Nalětna adonisowa rožycka
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- World Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Adonis vernalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.