Hill Buttercup: Covered in Fruit

Hill Buttercup (Ranunculus hamatosetosus)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Buttercups (Ranunculales)

Family:

Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Hill Buttercup (Ranunculus hamatosetosus)

This Photo:

🔍Covered in Fruit🔎

Thank you Kai-Philipp Schablewski for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Flinders Ranges and possibly elsewhere
These can have 0 (like here) - 2 petals. As such, they are rarely recognised by amateurs. They are endemic to South Australia. They have a status of Least Concern in the Southern Flinders ranges, which turns to Endangered the further South you head; and are Rare to the North & East.
Atlas has 258 records.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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