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yellow pheasant's eyes

It's definitely spring here now and on my walk this afternoon I spotted these stunningly bright yellow flowers huddling in the (dry) grass of a neglected front garden. They're Pheasant's Eyes (Adonis vernalis) and this garden is the only place I've ever seen it. It's a very rare plant in the wild here in Sweden but there's supposed to be cultivars around even though I've never seen any myself.

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two yellow daisy-like flowers growing close to the ground

three yellow daisy-like flowers growing close to the ground

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Ooooh, they're so vibrant.

Yes, they're hard to miss!

Very pretty

You do see them here occasioanlly but they're not native to the UK.

I just checked and here in Sweden it apparently only grows on the two large islands in the Baltic, Gotland and Öland. It's a protected species and classified as Near Threatened.

Wow—that’s the floral image of the Scandinavian sun coming into her ascendance.

Very true! And they're so large. Much larger than our other wild spring flowers.

Oh wow, I've never seen those before! We've got crocuses and snowdrops growing here in Illinois. I don't believe that either are native to the region though. :)

Crocuses and snowdrops aren't native here in Sweden either. I think most of them originate in southeastern Europe. We certainly have a lot of them here in gardens though.