diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
index c7ea752a887..c46dd129794 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ TIP: If you want to disable lazy initialization for certain beans while using la
 The banner that is printed on start up can be changed by adding a `banner.txt` file to your classpath or by setting the configprop:spring.banner.location[] property to the location of such a file.
 If the file has an encoding other than UTF-8, you can set `spring.banner.charset`.
 
-Inside your `banner.txt` file, you can use any of the following placeholders:
+Inside your `banner.txt` file, you can use any key available in the `Environment` as well as any of the following placeholders:
 
 .Banner variables
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