Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Ranunculus pumilio var. pumilio

Common name

Ferny buttercup, Ferny small-flowered buttercup

Family

Ranunculaceae

Where found

Woodland, grassland, disturbed sites, and gullies and other moist sites. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the tablelands. Rarely in the ranges.

Notes

Annual herb to 0.6 m tall.  Stems hairy to almost hairless.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-4 cm long, to 40 mm wide, compound or deeply dissected, with 3-5 leaflets or lobes, the leaflets or lobes further dissected.  Flowers green, with 2-5 yellow petals each 1-2 mm long, in loose clusters. Sepals curved down. Flowers Winter to Summer. Seeds usually 10–20, lens shaped, 1.5–2 mm long overall, with a very short blunt or minutely hooked triangular beak about 0.2 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~pumilio (accessed 4 February, 2021)