Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus anemoneus
Common name
Anemone buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, very low shrubland in alpine feldmark, alpine herbfields, steep grassy slopes, roadsides, rock crevices, and along snow-melt streams. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.35 m tall or more, often with short rhizomes. Flowering stems stout, hairy to almost hairless. Basal leaves round, 2.5–11 cm long, 40–130 mm wide, leathery, deeply lobed, hairless to hairy above, hairless to somewhat silky below. Stem leaves stem clasping, the lowermost similar to the basal leaves, the upper leaves smaller with narrower segments. Flowers creamy white, 25–60 mm in diameter, with 15–35 petals. Flowers single or in clusters of 2-4. Flowering: early summer. Seeds numerous, plump, about 3 mm long, smooth, with a straight to curved down beak about 2 mm long.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10727 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~anemoneus (accessed 8 January 2021)
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