Citation: Desf., Fl. Atlant. 1:437, t. 3 (1798).

Synonymy: Ranunculus trachycarpus

Common name: Large annual buttercup.

Description:
Annual, 20-80 cm high, almost glabrous; roots stout, fibrous; stems branched, rather weak, erect or ascending, with several flowers; basal leaves with long petioles, sheath apex with a few thin hairs; blades of first leaves suborbicular, the next ones ternate, leaflets cuneate-obovate, dentate.

Flowers 8-13 mm diam.; pedicels longer than the opposing leaf; sepals 5, reflexed, 4-5 mm long; petals 5 or sometimes fewer, elliptic to obovate, 4-5 mm long, shortly clawed; nectary scale at the base, dentate; stamens c. 10.

Achenes numerous (usually more than 20), ovateorbicular, c. 2-3 mm diam., compressed, densely tuberculate (tubercles conical-hemispherical, small); beak narrow-triangular, scarcely c. 0.5 mm long, recurved, rising abruptly from the margin.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to south-western Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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