Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus collinus
Common name
Strawberry Buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassland, and moist areas, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park, ACT, and Blue Mountains.
Notes
Perennial herb, stoloniferous. Flower stalks to 0.22 m high, hairy to almost hairless, with appressed or spreading hairs. Leaves basal, 0.3–4 cm long and 3–50 mm wide, round or almost round, usually compound, sometimes deeply lobed, divided into 3 leaflets or lobes which are toothed or further lobed, surfaces dark-green, more or less shining above, paler beneath, both surfaces hairless to moderately appressed-hairy. Flowers bright golden-yellow, glossy, with 5–11 petals each 5-10 mm long, Sepals spreading, rarely turned back. Flowering stems 1–2 flowered. Flowering: spring to summer. Seeds 8–30, 2–2.5 mm long, broadly oval, with 2–4 oblique coarse low ridges, or with a bold network on each face; beak 0.5–1 mm long, curved down.
Hybrids between Ranunculus millanii and Ranunculus collinus have been given the name Ranunculus x ligulatus.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~collinus (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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