Scientific name: Ranunculus peltatus Schrank
Common name: Pond Water-crowfoot
Description
Habit: An aquatic, annual or perennial.
Stems: Subaquatic or floating.
Leaves: Subaquatic or floating, spirally appearing alternately arranged, of 2 different forms or hair-like leaves only; flat leaves circular, divided over halfway to 3-7 lobes, with long stalk to 7 cm; hair-like leaves with rigid or limp, thin segments, shorter than R. penicillatus, and shorter than or the same length as the adjacent internode.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, solitary, 15-30 mm across; sepals 5, petal-like, spreading and free; the petals 5 or more, with pear-shaped nectaries; stamens numerous, indefinite and free; ovary superior.
Fruits: A cluster of achenes, young achenes hairy.
Habitat: Rivers, ponds, rarely in lakes.Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No