Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus repens
Common name
Creeping buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Moist shaded forest, lawns, pastures, roadsides, ditches, moist disturbed sites, stream banks, marshes, and swamps. Mainly coast, ranges, ACT, and along the Murray River. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.75 m high, stoloniferous, variable, hairless or hairy. Flowering stems hairy, often branching and leafy. Basal leaves tufted, 1.5–15 cm long, to 120 mm in diameter, approximately D-shaped in outline, compound, with 3 leaflets, the leaflets variously toothed or further divided. Uppermost stem-leaves narrow and entire. Flowers yellow, glossy, usually with 5 broad petals each 6–15 mm long, 5–13 mm wide. Sepals spreading. Flowers single or in branched clusters. Flowers most of the year. Seeds usually 20–40, broadly elliptic to almost round, 2.5-3 mm long, strongly laterally compressed, side faces smooth or minutely pitted, with a prominent marginal ridge, beak about 1 mm long, slightly curved or straight.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~repens (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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