Choice plants for the early spring garden, with very superior buttercup-like flowers over very ferny foliage. Enjoys a retentive soil in full sun. Found from Europe through to Japan.
Visited by many pollinators including bees, beetles and flies. Most are yellow flowered, however, the one wild species in the UK A. annua is red flowered and a scarce and declining plant of arable margins on light soils. As with many members of the buttercup family, adonis contains chemicals, some of which have been used medicinally.