Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ranunculus clivicola

Common name

A Buttercup

Family

Ranunculaceae

Where found

Subalpine woodland in wet places below semipermanent snow patches on steep slopes. Kosciuszko plateau.

Notes

Perennial herb. Flowering stems to 0.5 m high, hairy below, appressed-hairy above. Leaves basal, 1–6.5 cm long, 10–65 mm wide, round to D-shaped or triangular. Basal leaves divided into 3–5 segments which are often further lobed and toothed, surfaces sparsely to densely hairy. Stem-leaves less divided, grading upwards on the stems into linear or lance head shaped bracts. Flowers yellow, 18–35 mm in diameter, with 5–8 petals. Sepals spreading. Flowering stems 2-4-flowered. Flowering: summer. Seeds 3–4.5 mm long, strongly compressed, with smooth sides and a prominent marginal ridge; beak 1.8–3 mm long, straight or arching with a curved down tip.

Hybridises with Ranunculus niphophilus.

PlantNET description with line drawings of 'seed':  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~clivicola (accessed 4 February, 2021)