Adonis vernalis L., Spring Adonis, a well-known cardiac medicinal herb, starts flowering having in spring just appeared above the ground and misses the petals when the shoot already grow about 30 cm tall.

A south-exposed right slope of the Inya River valley just upstream of the halt Inya, Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia.19th April 1997. O. Kosterin.