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Adonis aestivalis L.

Summer pheasants-eye (en), Adonis dété (fr), Adonis d'été (fr), Goutte-de-sang (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Adonis

Characteristics

Herbs , annual, taprooted. Stem 1, 20-50(-100) cm. Leaves: basal leaves 3-5 cm, similar to cauline, petiolate; cauline leaves sessile or subsessile. Leaf blade 2-3-pinnatifid. Flowers 1.5-3.5 cm diam.; sepals appressed to petals, broadly obovate, ±erose in distal 1/3, minutely ciliate, otherwise glabrous; petals 6-8, ± erect, orange [yellow, scarlet, or bright red-purple], usually with dark purple basal blotch, ± plane, 10-17 mm, ca. 1.5 times length of calyx, apex slightly erose; stamens ca. 30; anthers purple-black (olive green with age); pistils 30-40. Heads of achenes cylindric, 20-30 × 7-10mm; pedicels conspicuously exserted well beyond leaves; achenes 4-6mm, glabrous, adaxial margin with low, rounded tooth, transverse flange around middle (most pronounced abaxially), abaxial keel bearing small obtuse tooth at junction with flange; beak straight, erect, 1.5-2 mm.
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Plants annual. Stems 10--20 cm tall, branched or unbranched, basally sparsely pubescent. Leaves long petiolate, clustered apically on stem; leaf blade ca. 3.5 cm, increasing in size upward on stem to 6 cm, glabrous or abaxially sparsely pubescent; upper stem leaves finely 2 or 3 × pinnately divided; ultimate segments linear to lanceolate-linear, 0.4--0.8 mm wide. Sepals 5, narrowly rhombic to narrowly ovate, membranous. Petals orange. Ovary narrowly ovoid with a dorsal ridge, apically narrowed. Achenes ovoid, ca. 3.5 mm, reticulate-veined, with conspicuous dorsal and ventral ridges. Fl. Jun.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.35
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A weed of cornfields, usually on calcareous soils.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 1-5
Soil acidity 5-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses experimental purposes medicinal poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Diuretics (flower), Laxatives (flower), Urinary bladder calculi (flower), Wounds and injuries (leaf), Cardiac (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Emmenagogue (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Carcinoma (unspecified), Cardiotonic agents (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Anti-poisoning (unspecified)
Human toxicity strong toxic (whole)
Animal toxicity strong toxic (whole)

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 120
Germination temperacture (C°) 17 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Adonis aestivalis habit picture by Ondřej Jokerrr83 (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis habit picture by Roman Cyrul (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis habit picture by Sinan Avcı (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Adonis aestivalis leaf picture by Tomaž Jančar (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis leaf picture by Ondřej Jokerrr83 (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis leaf picture by Roman Cyrul (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Adonis aestivalis flower picture by Barbieri Daniele (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis flower picture by Tomaž Jančar (cc-by-sa)
Adonis aestivalis flower picture by Ondřej Jokerrr83 (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Adonis aestivalis fruit picture by Pierre Duthil (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Adonis aestivalis world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Algeria, Spain, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Morocco, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:708056-1
WFO ID wfo-0000521105
COL ID 654JZ
BDTFX ID 830
INPN ID 80211
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Adonis flammea Adonis inermis Adonis linnaei Adonis micrantha Adonis miniata Cosmarium aestivale Adonis bienertii Adonis citrina Adonis flava Adonis maculata Adonis crinita Adonis ambigua Adonis autumnalis Adonis cristata Adonis inglisii Adonis polymorpha Adonis aestivalis subsp. marginata Adonis aestivalis var. velutina Adonis ambigua var. flavus Adonis annua var. phoenicea Adonis maculata var. miniata Adonis maculata var. ochroleuca Adonis maculata var. pallens Adonis aestivalis f. citrina Adonis aestivalis subsp. aestivalis Adonis aestivalis var. aestivalis Adonis aestivalis

Lower taxons

Adonis aestivalis subsp. parviflora Adonis aestivalis subsp. squarrosa
WorldFloraDB 2024