Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Ranunculus plebeius
Forest buttercup
Ranunculaceae
Moist sites in forest and woodland, and stream banks, mainly below 1000m. Widespread, but rarely on the Western Slopes.
Perennial herb to 0.8 m high. Flowering stems with spreading and/or appressed hairs. Leaves mostly basal, 1–7 cm long, 10-70 mm wide or more, hairy with fine spreading hairs, usually compound, with 3 leaflets, sometimes dissected with 3 lobes, the segments again divided into 3 and/or with toothed margins. Flowers with 5 golden-yellow petals each 5–10 mm long, 2–4 mm wide. Sepals curved down. Flowering stems usually branched, with 2-16 flowers. Flowering: Nov.-Mar.. Seeds usually 20–50, 1.8–3 mm long, lens-shaped, smooth with a narrow marginal ridge, sometimes with a row of stiff appressed to sem-appressed hairs along the upper margin, beak strongly curved down, 0.5–1 mm long.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~plebeius (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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