Perennial to 1 m tall with spreading rhizomes, stem and leaves waxy blue. Leaves divided 2-3 times, hairless. Leaflets obovate with 3-4 pointed lobes at the tip. Flowers fragrant, summer. Sepals 4, yellow. Stamens longer than sepals, erect. Fruit achenes, stalkless, ribbed. T

SW Europe, N Africa

wo similar plants sometimes offered are T. flavum subsp. glaucum (Desf.) Batt. (T. speciosissimum L.) which has waxy blue stems and leaves, and T. minus L. from Eurasia; the latter has hanging, not erect, stamens.

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.