Description: Annual or perennial herbs with leafy stems.
Leaves alternate, 2–4-pinnate with linear segments.
Flowers usually solitary, actinomorphic, bisexual. Sepals 5–8, green or purple, ± petaloid. Petals 3–20, without a nectary. Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous.
Fruit an oblong head of wrinkled achenes.
Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 20 species, Europe & temperate Asia. Australia: 1 species (naturalized).
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept:
| One species in NSW: Adonis microcarpa |
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