Adonis flammeaJacq.

WFO wfo-0000521203 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adonis flammea, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. a Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199969475
Adonis flammea, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121851073
Adonis flammea, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114448657
Adonis flammea, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61455877
Adonis flammea, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19846901
Adonis flammea, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. f Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115963257
Adonis flammea, photographed by Valerii Darmostuk
fig. g Valerii Darmostuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44634422
Adonis flammea, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. h Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94071553

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Adonis flammea is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoIranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Adonis flammea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR

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.

Flowering 51 in flower of 52 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Adonis flammea observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 51 of 52 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 418 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.6 °C -1.9 °C 1.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.9 °C 26.2 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 423 mm 573 mm 1,010 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 49 mm 113 mm 192 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 418 research-grade observations of Adonis flammea 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Adonis anomala Wallr.
  • Adonis caudata Steven
  • Adonis citrina DC.
  • Adonis flammea subsp. cortiana C.H.Steinb.
  • Adonis flammea subsp. polypetala (Lange) C.H.Steinb.
  • Adonis flammea var. anomala (Wallr.) Beck
  • Adonis flammea var. cortiana (C.H.Steinb.) W.T.Wang
  • Adonis flammea var. polypetala Lange
  • Adonis flammea var. straminea Beck
  • Adonis involucrata S.Pons

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.