Diffuse, perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Stems straggling. Leaves: lamina up to 90 mm in diam., digitally 5-lobed to ± 2/3 of way to base; lobes ± elliptic in outline, shallowly lobed; upper surface thinly appressed-hairy, lower surface sparsely to densely hairy, hairs long, ± spreading, eglandular; petioles up to 300 mm long, diminishing upwards. Inflorescences opposite upper leaves, 2-flowered; peduncles 2-65 mm long; pedicels 10-40 mm long, pilose with hairs as for leaves. Sepals 6-8 x 2-3 mm, pilose. Petals 7-17 x 2.5-5.5 mm, narrow, obovate, deeply notched. Flowering time July-Apr.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Stems straggling. Leaves with median primary leaf lobe of blade shallowly to deeply cut, but not to base of leaf; petioles up to 300 mm long, diminishing upwards, upper leaves with very short petioles, clad in spreading hairs, usually eglandular. Flowers: inflorescence usually 2-flowered, peduncles opposite, pedicels 10-40 mm long; petals narrow, 7-17 x 2.5-5.5 mm, deeply notched; Jul.-Apr.