Herbs acaulecent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 10-90 cm, short or long stipitate-glandular. Leaves: petiole glabrous or short to long stipitate-glandular; blade ovate to orbiculate, deeply 5-7-lobed, 2.2-8 cm, base cordate, truncate, or cuneate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short or long stipitate-glandular. Inflorescences dense; (bracts subtending pedicels sometimes strongly fringed). Flowers: hypanthium weakly bilaterally symmetric, free 1-2 mm, cream or yellow, often tinged red or green, especially at base, broadly campanulate, 6-8.5 mm, short stipitate-glandular and sometimes long stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, sometimes red-tinged, equal, 2.5-5 mm, apex rounded or obtuse; petals absent or 1-5, erect, green, narrowly oblanceolate, unlobed, 1 mm, margins entire; stamens included 1-2 mm; (filaments erect, straight, stout, to 2 times length of anthers); styles included 2-3 mm, 0.5-1 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. Capsules ovoid, 6-10 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, oblong-ellipsoid, 0.6-0.9 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
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A small plant. It forms mounds. It grows 30-50 cm high and spreads 30 cm wide. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are dark green. They are broadly oval and have deep round lobes. The leaves are often hairy. They are 2.5-8 cm long. The edges are scalloped and there are metallic paler green mottles on the leaves. The flowers are greenish or pink. They occur on leafless stems in summer. The flower panicles are 15 cm long.
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