Plants prostrate or spreading to weakly erect. Leaves: stipules often sheathing, 6–12 mm, scarious, glabrous; petiole 0.5–1(–1.5) cm; leaflets 0.5–2.5 × 0.2–1 cm, subglabrous to appressed silky-villous especially abaxially, sometimes merely villous on veins. Pedicels 5–15(–30) mm, elongating in fruit, thinly villous. Flowers: epicalyx bractlets narrowly lanceolate, 4–13 mm, usually equal to or shorter than sepals, sometimes revolute, villous; sepals 4–6(–9) mm, apex acuminate, villous; petals 5–15 mm; anthers 0.9–1.2 mm, connective reddish brown to blackish, theca yellowish; styles 0.8–1.5 mm. Achenes light brown. 2n = 14, 28 (Europe).