Common name: Pheasant's Eye
Adonis microcarpa DC. APNI* 
Description: Annual.
Stems 10–50 cm high.
Flowers 15–25 mm diam. Sepals 5. Petals 5–8, bright scarlet when fresh, often yellowish when dry, with a dark purple blotch at base. Anthers blackish purple.
Achene beak short.
Flowering: spring or summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Poisonous to stock. Native of S Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *NWS, *CWS, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *S.A.
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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