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Biennial to perennial up to 2-(3) m high, with a single main stem. Stems sparsely to densely clothed in stellate hairs and hispid when young, becoming ± glabrous or with scattered deflexed hairs when mature. Lvs moderately to densely clothed in stellate hairs, becoming ± glabrous above when mature, suborbicular, cordate or sagittate at base, not lobed or shallowly to moderately 3-7-lobed to < ⅓ radius particularly in stem lvs, crenate or serrate, c. 2-20 cm diam.; petioles 2-c. 30 cm long; stipules triangular, 1-3-toothed, 6-10 mm long. Fls axillary, usually solitary, rarely in clusters of 2-3; fruiting pedicels 1-5-(20) cm long; epicalyx segments 6, narrow-triangular, united for lower ?-1/2, c. 1/2-3/4 as long as calyx at flowering, usually recurved at fruiting; calyx campanulate; calyx teeth narrow-or ovate-triangular, acute, densely clothed in stellate hairs, ± connivent at fruiting; petals white, light to dark pink, deep crimson or purple, sometimes darker at base, 30-60 mm long. Mericarps numerous in each fr., with appressed hairs on the narrowly furrowed back; edges winged.
A short lived perennial plant. It grows for about 2 years. It grows 1.5-2.5 m high and spreading to 60 cm wide. The stem is erect, leafy and flowering. The leaf stalks are 5-15 cm long. The leaf blade is nearly round and 6-16 cm across. There are 5-7 lobes arranged like fingers on a hand. The lobes are triangular. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. They are bowl shaped. The petals are crinkled. Flowers are red, purple, pink, white, yellow and black and 6-10 cm across.
Plants 1–2.5+ m, roughly stellate-hairy to hirsute. Leaves: stipules ovate, 8 mm, apically 3-lobed; petiole equaling or longer than blade; blade suborbiculate to 5–7-angled or shallowly triangular-lobed, sometimes more deeply channeled and winged dorsally, 6–8 mm. Seeds tuberculate or not, often minutely hairy. 2n = 42.
