Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 15-60 cm, glabrous or short stipitate-glandular. Leaves: pet-iole glabrous or short stipitate-glandular; blade rounded-cordate to orbiculate, often ± polygonal, deeply 5(-7+)-lobed, 3.5-10 cm, base usually cordate, sometimes nearly truncate, lobes usually triangular, sometimes ovate, margins raggedly dentate to serrate, apex usually acute, surfaces sparsely short stipitate-glandular, glabrate. Inflorescences diffuse. Flowers: hypanthium radially symmetric, free 0.4-0.5 mm, white, obconic, 2-3.5 mm, moderately long stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, green-tipped, equal, 0.5 mm, apex rounded; petals reflexed, white, narrowly elliptic, (clawed), unlobed, 1.8-2 mm, margins entire; stamens exserted 1-1.5 mm; styles exserted 2-2.5 mm, 2-4 mm, to 0.1 mm diam. Capsules ovoid, 4-6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.7-0.8 mm, finely spiny. 2n = 14.
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A herb that forms tufts. It grows 15-60 cm tall. The leaves at the base are widely heart shaped with 5 lobes and teeth long the edge. The leaves on the stem are smaller. The flowers are in wiry sprays on slender stalks.
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