OBJECTIVE: To establish a method for simultaneous determination of 5 effective components in Luohua zizhu dry extract. METHODS: UPLC-MS/MS was conducted. The separation was performed on an Zorbax Eclipse Plus C18 column with mobile phase of acetonitrile-water (gradient elution) at the flow rate of 0.3 mL/min. The column temperature was set at 40 ℃ and sample size was 2 μL. The analytes were detected in the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. Nitrogen was used as drying gas and atomized gas. The temperature and flow rate of drying gas were 325 ℃ and 6 L/min. The pressure of atomized gas was 45 psi. The temperature and flow rate of sheath gas were 350 ℃ and 12 L/min. The voltage of capillary were 4 000 V(+) and 3 500 V(-). The voltage of nozzle was 500 V. RESULTS:The linear ranges of luteoloside,acteoside,quercetin,luteolin and rutin were 0.504 8- 252.4 ng/mL(r=0.999 9),0.712 4-356.2 ng/mL(r=0.999 0),0.509 4-254.7 ng/mL(r=0.996 2),0.303 0-151.5 ng/mL(r=0.999 8) and 0.602 2-301.1 ng/mL (r=0.999 6), respectively. RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were all less than 3.0%. The limit of quantitation were 0.42,0.87,0.33,0.12,0.76 ng/mL. The recoveries were 97.99%-101.20% (RSD=1.3%,n=6), 96.50%-101.20% (RSD=1.7%,n=6), 94.81%-99.34% (RSD=1.7%,n=6), 97.54%-100.51% (RSD=1.2%,n=6),93.37%-98.70% (RSD=1.9%,n=6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, precise, stable and reproducible, and can be used for simultaneous determination of 5 effective components in Luohua zizhu dry extract.