Herbs, (?short-lived) perennial, 10-40 cm tall, above papillose-scabrid at petiole margins and veins abaxially on leaves and bracts. Rhizome small, with prominent persistent taproot at base, apically with 1(to few) sterile leaf rosettes. Stems several from axils of previous year’s rosette leaves, leafy and branched throughout, angular. Rosette leaves: petiole 3-8 cm, shortly vaginate at base; blade glaucous abaxially, olive-green adaxially, ovate to triangular, 2-5 × 1.5-5 cm, bi-to triternate, with leaflets ± deeply cut into coarsely crenate-dentate lobes, teeth obtuse, distinctly mucronate. Cauline leaves similar, but lateral pinnae less divided and petioles shorter, at base with membranous dentate auricles. Racemes (3-)6-12(-19)-flowered, dense in flower, elongating in fruit; bracts obovate to oblanceolate, 3-6 mm, ± divided into few to many mucronate lobes. Pedicel 3-5 mm, only slightly elongating and arcuate in fruit. Flowers white to purplish pink, darker at apex. Sepals rounded, 1-1.5 mm, finely serrate. Outer petals with short high crest not reaching apex, margin undulate-dentate, apex shortly acuminate; upper petal 19-22 mm; spur 10-12 mm, slender, slightly tapering; nectary ca. 4 mm; lower petal with narrow straight base; inner petals ca. 10 mm. Stigma square, with well-developed rounded basal lobes; marginal papillae 4, apical; geminate papillae lateral (submarginal) and on basal lobes. Fruit linear, subtorulose, 18-21 × 1-1.5 mm, (5-)9-13-seeded; style proper ca. 2.5 mm, but seedless beak of fruit 1-3 mm. Seeds 1-1.2 mm, smooth, sharply keeled with distinct uneven marginal rim; elaiosome large, lobed. Fl. and fr. May(-Aug).
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