Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 15-65 cm, glabrous or short stipitate-glandular. Leaves: petiole glabrous or short stipitate-glandular; blade cordate or orbiculate, shallowly 3-5-lobed, 1-7 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short stipitate-glandular. Inflorescences dense, interrupted. Flowers: hypanthium weakly bilaterally symmetric, free 1.2-1.9 mm, cream, broadly campanulate, 4-7 mm, short stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, often red-tipped, equal, 2 mm, apex rounded; petals erect, pink or white, spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 1-3 mm, margins entire; stamens included 1.5 mm; (filaments strongly incurved, shorter than and almost concealed by anthers); styles included to 1 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. Capsules ovoid, 5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.6 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
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