Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus plebeius
Common name
Forest buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Moist sites in forest and woodland, and stream banks, mainly below 1000m. Widespread, but rarely on the Western Slopes.
Notes
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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