Common name: Celery Buttercup
Ranunculus sceleratus L. APNI* Synonyms: Ranunculus scleratus L. APNI*
Description: Usually annual, glabrous or pilose.
Flowering stems 20–60 cm high, stout, profusely branching.
Leaves with lamina ± reniform or oblate, mostly 1–3 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, deeply 3-lobed, segments further lobed; uppermost leaves sometimes oblanceolate and entire; petiole 3–12 cm long. Flowers 5–10 mm diam. Petals 5, pale yellow; nectary surrounded by a thickened rim.
Achenes < 1 mm long, with a minute beak, minutely ridged when dry; 40–300 in an elongated head.
Flowering: mostly summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet mud and in poorly drained pasture land. Poisonous to stock. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Vic.
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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