Blooddrops
Adonis aestivalis
Washington State Classification
Monitor List
This plant is on the monitor list - it is not a listed noxious weed in Washington.
Quick Reference
Identification
Growth Habit
Herbaceous, upright annual that can grow to 18 inches (45cm) tall.
Leaves
Leaves are finely divided, 2-3 pinnate, and are 1 1/4 to 2 inches (3-5cm) long. Leaflets are linear.
Flowers
Flowers are cup-shaped, 0.6 to 1 inch (1.5-2.5 cm) in diameter. Its sepals are appressed to the petals. Sepals broadly obovate, minutely ciliate (hairy). Flowers have 6-10 spreading petals, dark red (orange to red-purple), usually with a dark basal blotch. Stamens 15-20, anthers purple-black when young, and pistils 20-30.
Fruit & Seeds
Fruit is a head of achenes, short-cylindric, with each achene 3-5 mm, hairless, beak straight 0.5-1 mm. Body of achene without transverse flange, abaxial keel not toothed.
Impact
This plant is on the monitor list - it is not a listed noxious weed in Washington. Please contact the Noxious Weed Control Board, noxiousweeds@agr.wa.gov , to report locations or for more information.
Ecology & Spread
Habitat
Disturbed sites and open forests
Spread Mechanisms
Reproduction
Seed only
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