Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched or unbranched. Flowering stems 4-71 cm, short stipitate-glandular. Leaves: petiole glabrate or short stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate or reniform to broadly cordate, shallowly to deeply 5-7-lobed, 1-8 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces (glaucous), glabrate or short stipitate-glandular, sometimes long stipitate-glandular along veins abaxially, glabrate or short stipitate-glandular adaxially. Inflorescences dense at anthesis, diffuse in fruit. Flowers: hypanthium radially symmetric, free 0.4-1 mm, greenish or cream to yellow, flat, saucer-shaped, 2.5-5 mm, short stipitate-glandular and sometimes sparsely long stipitate-glandular; sepals reflexed, green-or red-tipped, equal, 0.5-1.5 mm, apex acute; petals reflexed, white, elliptic or rhombic, (clawed), unlobed, 0.7-3 mm, margins entire; nectary tissue or disc encircling base of styles at junction of ovary and free hypanthium yellow or orange, exposed; stamens included 0.5 mm, (incurved over stigmas); styles included 1-1.5 mm, 0.3-0.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. Capsules ovoid or subglobose, 3-6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds dark brown, ovoid-ellipsoid, 0.6-1 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
Home