Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 10-40 cm, sparsely medium stipitate-glandular. Leaves: petiole long stipitate-glandular; blade reniform or orbiculate, shallowly 5-lobed, 1.5-3.5 cm, base cordate or truncate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces short or long stipitate-glandular. Inflorescenses dense. Flowers: hypanthium strongly bilaterally symmetric, free 3-3.5 mm on adaxial side, pink to purplish, narrowly cylindric or cylindric-urceolate, 4-7 mm, short stipitate-glandular proximally, densely long stipitate-glandular distally; sepals spreading, green-tipped, unequal, 2 mm on adaxial side of hypanthium, apex obtuse or rounded; petals spreading, white, broadly oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 3-4 mm (longer than sepals), margins entire; stamens included 0.5 mm to exserted 0.5 mm; styles included to 2 mm, 1.5-2 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. Capsules urceolate, 4-6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.7 mm.
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