Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Ranunculus collinus
Strawberry Buttercup
Ranunculaceae
Woodland, grassland, and moist areas, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park, ACT, and Blue Mountains.
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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