Robust, subshrub, 0.2-1.0 m high. Leaves all cauline, petiolate, lamina up to 50-100 mm in diam., digitally (3-)5(-7)-lobed, each lobe twice pinnatifid, elliptic-lanceolate in outline, segments narrowly ovate, margins entire with an occasional tooth, upper surface with silvery appressed hairs, lower surface silvery tomentose. Inflorescences terminal and opposite to upper leaves; of small, almost leafless, 2-flowered, compound cymes; pedicels up to 60 mm long; hairs fine, appressed-retrorse with few to many spreading, gland-tipped ones. Petals 13-20 x 11-15 mm long, light purple; Nov.-Mar.
Dwarf shrub, 0.2-1.8 m high; robust. Stems erect, silky canescent and leafy above. Leaves all cauline, silvery, twice pinnatifid; blade up to 50-100 mm in diameter, segments narrowly ovate, margins entire, occasional toothed, upper surface with silvery appressed hairs, lower surface thick silvery tomentose; petioles 2-3 x longer than blade. Flowers: inflorescence usually 2-flowered; peduncles opposite on upper surface and terminal, pedicels up to 60 mm long, with fine appressed retrorse hairs and few to many, spreading, gland-tipped ones; petals 13-20 x 11-15 mm, light purple; Nov.-Mar.