Pheasant's Eye
Leaves
Flinders Ranges
Pheasant's Eye
8 Petal Flower
 
                      
Pheasant's Eye (Adonis microcarpa)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Buttercups (Ranunculales)
Family: Buttercup (Ranunculaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Pheasant's Eye (Adonis microcarpa)
This Photo:     🔍5 Petal Flower🔎
Other names: Red Chamomile or Yellow Pheasant's Eye

General Species Information:
Found in the Flinders Ranges and possibly elsewhere
Plant ~110mm high. Flowers ~16mm diameter, are often red, but can also have yellow petals.
At one time a declared weed, but has been removed from the list.
They can have 5-15 petals, makes it hard to find an id. 5 sepals though.
This is the only species in the genus in Australia.

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)