Hill Buttercup
Covered in Fruit
Flinders Ranges
Hill Buttercup
Young Fruit (below)
 
                      
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:     🔍Cauline Leaf🔎

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.

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 15-Sep-2024
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.