Ranunculus repens
L. Creeping ButtercupVariable glabrous or pubescent stoloniferous perennial to c. 50 cm high. Basal leaves tufted with petioles to c. 30 cm long or more; lamina c. deltoid in outline, trifoliolate, to 12 cm diam., glabrous or pilose, sometimes slightly variegated, segments variously toothed or further divided. Inflorescence a cymose panicle or a solitary flower; sepals 5, spreading, ovate; petals 5, spreading, broadly obovate to orbicular, 6–15 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, yellow, glossy; nectary lobe largely free, broad-cuneate to obovate, 1–2 mm long. Achenes usually 20–40, broadly elliptic, c. 3 mm long, minutely pitted on sides; beak c. 1 mm long, slightly curved; receptacle hispid. Flowers most of year.
GleP, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Native to Europe and western Asia. Locally common in cooler, chiefly southern areas of the State, occurring in ditches, on roadsides and in disturbed, moist shaded forests. Often growing to the exclusion of other herbaceous species.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Ranunculaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 35–63. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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