Herbs, perennial, 12-25 cm tall, glabrous; stems and petioles of radical leaves attenuate to filiform underground base. Storage roots numerous, fascicled, spindle-shaped, 5-13 × 2-4 mm, sessile or abruptly narrowed into thin stalk. Stems 1-3, erect, slender, simple, very rarely branched, with 1 or 2 leaves in upper 1/2. Radical leaves few, delicate; petiole 2-6(-12) cm; blade with 3 or 4 shortly stalked or sessile, obovate to oblanceolate, entire to deeply divided leaflets 6-20 × 3-5 mm. Cauline leaves: petiole 0.1-1 cm; blade ternatisect to palmatisect with usually 5 lanceolate leaflets. Raceme 6-19-flowered, long, narrow; bracts lanceolate, 4-7 mm, entire or rarely divided. Pedicel 3-5 mm, rigidly reflexed in fruit. Sepals minute. Corolla blue; outer petals ovate, acute, with narrow acute crest slightly overtopping apex; upper petal 13-17 mm; spur cylindric, 6-10 mm; nectary ca. 2/5 as long as spur; lower petal navicular-oblanceolate, 7-8 mm, base with diminutive spurlet, distal 1/2 strongly reflexed; inner petals ca. 6 mm. Stigma rounded to square; marginal papillae: median 2 distinct, lateral indistinct; geminate papillae lateral (submarginal) and terminating basal lobes. Capsule narrowly obovoid, 5-7 × ca. 1.5 mm, 4-7-seeded; style ca. 2 mm. Seeds 0.9-1 mm, smooth. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug.
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