Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus sceleratus subsp. sceleratus
Common name
Celery Buttercup, Celery-leaved Buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Poorly drained pasture land, wet mud, along drainage lines, along streams, in swamps, marshes, and shallow lakes. Sydney area. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park and nearby, and Albury district. Mostly in Vic.
Notes
Introduced annual or overwintering biennial herb to about 0.80 m tall, somewhat fleshy, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1-8 cm long, 15-100 mm wide, hairy or hairless, sometimes glossy, deeply 3- or 5- lobed, the lobes usually again lobed, margins scalloped to toothed. Uppermost leaves sometimes entire. Flowers 5–10 mm in diameter, usually with 5 yellow petals, in open clusters often of more than 30 flowers, appearing single. Sepals bent sharply down. Flowering: most of the year. Seeds 40–300 in an elongated head. Seeds flattened oval, elliptical, or almost semicircular, to about 1 mm long; beak minute.
Subspecies not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~sceleratus (accessed 3 April 2021)
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