Perennial with tuberous and fibrous roots, low. Basal leaves ovate, bluntly toothed and generally with dark or silver blotching. Flowers yellow, often becoming whitish; spring. Fruits of beaked achenes. [Ficaria verna Huds.] Recorded as naturalised in Victoria as, for example, around Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Victoria, and in cool districts.

Europe, N Africa, W Asia

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Ranunculaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.