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Prostrate herb, generally with appressed, silky hairs, creeping and forming mats to 50-(70) cm diam. Petioles occasionally to 10 cm long. Lamina very variable, (0.5)-10-30-(40) mm diam., orbicular to reniform, often with upper and lower surfaces equally densely hairy; base cordate with very shallow to narrow and deep sinus; apex usually rounded, less commonly emarginate. Peduncles to c. 5 cm long, usually much less; bracts at base linear, inconspicuous. Calyx 3-4 mm long; lobes oblong to elliptic, ± acute. Corolla 4-6 mm diam., c. = to calyx, greenish yellow. Anthers yellowish. Capsule 1.5-2.5 mm diam., globose or nearly so, hairy, < to almost = calyx.
A small creeping, perennial herb. Stems slender, shortly hairy, rooting at the nodes. Leaves long-petioled, kidney-shaped to orbicular, 4-25 mm diam., broadly cordate at the base, broadly rounded or emarginate at the apex, appressedly hairy, especially beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel mostly shorter than the petiole, filiform. Sepals obovate-oblong to spathulate, obtuse, ca 2-3 mm long, hairy on the back and at the margins. Corolla shorter to slightly longer than the calyx, deeply 5-lobed, yellowish. Carpels pilose. Seeds yellow to brown, glabrous.
A herb.
