Adonis apennina

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adonis apennina, photographed by Анна Васильченко — fig. b Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199939686

Adonis apennina, photographed by Alexander Dubynin — fig. d Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106622758

Adonis apennina, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38545897

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Adonis apennina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Altay	ALT	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur	AMU
Buryatiya	BRY
Chita	CTA
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Irkutsk	IRK
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Krasnoyarsk	KRA
Mongolia	MON
Tuva	TVA
West Siberia	WSB
Xinjiang	CHX
Yakutiya	YAK
East European Russia	RUE	EUROPE
North European Russia	RUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 812 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-26.8 °C	-25.4 °C	-17.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	20.0 °C	23.8 °C	24.4 °C
Annual rainfall	344 mm	454 mm	751 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	16 mm	34 mm	101 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 812 research-grade observations of Adonis apennina that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Adonanthe apennina (L.) Sennikov
Adonanthe sibirica (Patrin ex DC.) Spach
Adonis apennina subsp. sibirica (Patrin ex DC.) Korsh.
Adonis apennina var. dahurica Ledeb.
Adonis apennina var. sibirica (Patrin ex DC.) Ledeb.
Adonis ircutiana Fisch. ex DC.
Adonis sibirica Patrin ex Ledeb.
Adonis vernalis var. mentzelii DC.
Adonis vernalis var. sibirica Patrin ex DC.
Chrysocyathus apenninus (L.) Sennikov
Chrysocyathus sibiricus (Ledeb.) Holub

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.