Thick-fruit Buttercup - native (Ranunculus pachycarpus)

Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family).

Native of SE Australia. In Victoria, it grows north of the Dividing Range.

Occurrence: Uncommon.

Identification:

• it is a tufted plant (not spreading or creeping)
• the glossy yellow flowers have five petals on stalks longer than the leaves
• the leaves are divided into three leaflets, the leaflets are further toothed or lobed
• the leaf stalk has spreading hairs at the base and hairs pressed against the stalk near the flower
• the fruit segments are plump.

The tufted habit, the plump fruit segments and the spreading hairs at the base of the flower stalk help distinguish this buttercup.

Photos: Thick Fruit Buttercup. Garden specimens.