Herbs perennial. Roots woody. Flowering stems many, tufted, erect or ascending, 10–30 cm tall, densely glandular pubescent and sparsely pilose at base, branched in upper 1/2. Radical leaves densely arranged; petiole 1.5–3 cm, long setose; leaf blade 1–1.5 cm, 2 times 3-parted, glandular hairy and gray setose, base cuneate; segments entire or 2-or 3-sect into 2-or 3-fid segments; ultimate lobes linear, 4–6 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves resembling radical ones but petiole ca. 5 mm and lateral segments usually entire, sometimes incised, central segment 3-fid into 2-or 3-lobed lobes. Inflorescence compact, compound, cymose, many flowered; peduncle and pedicels glandular hairy; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 5–10 mm, 2-or 3-parted into linear segments, glandular hairy. Flowers 2–3 mm in diam.; pedicel 2–4 mm. Hypanthium broadly campanulate, 2–3 mm, abaxially setose. Sepals lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, markedly 10-ribbed and setose, apex acuminate. Petals pale pink or white, obovate, 3–4 mm, glabrous, base tapering into a cuneate claw, apex emarginate. Filaments 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. Receptacle villous. Carpels 4–6, free; ovary glabrous; style filiform. Achenes black-brown, cylindric-ovoid, ca. 2 mm, glabrous, apex mucronate. Fl. Jun–Aug, fr. Aug–Oct.
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