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Adonis aestivalis
Also called Summer pheasants-eye
Summer pheasant's eye is a Eurasian annual herb of the buttercup family, grown as an ornamental for its orange-red flowers with black-spotted petals. It is easy to grow from seed in sunny, well-drained spots, but it can spread into crop fields and contaminate horse hay.
Adonis aestivalis, the summer pheasant's-eye, is a medicinal and ornamental plant. It is native to Europe and Asia but has been introduced elsewhere, such as the western and eastern parts of the United States, as an ornamental plant. In particular, it has been known to invade alfalfa fields, contaminating feed used for horse hay. It is a member of the buttercup family. It is an annual herb.
Like other members of the Adonis genus, this species contains cardenolides, a class of cardiac glycosides. Cardiac glycosides are used to treat various heart diseases.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adonis aestivalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
