Plants rosette-forming to tufted, rarely ± matted, grayish or green. Stems ascending to erect, 1.5–3.5 dm, hairs 2–3 mm proximally, glands sparse to dense distally. Basal leaves weakly planar to loosely cylindric, (4–)5–12(–17) × 0.8–3(–4) cm, usually sericeous to villous, sometimes glabrate; stipules pinnately divided into 3–7 linear to filiform lobes; leaflets 5–10 per side, ± overlapping, obovate to broadly obcordate, 5–15(–25) × 5–20 mm, ± as wide as long, divided 3/4+ to midrib into (0–)2–15 linear to oblanceolate lobes 0.4–2(–3) mm wide, these not restricted to apex. Cauline leaves 3–6; stipules 8–15 mm, deeply 3–7-lobed proximally, 1–3-lobed distally. Inflorescences open to ± congested, flowers arranged individually or in ± corymbiform clusters. Pedicels 2–10(–20) mm. Flowers 10–15 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear to linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 × 0.5 mm, 2/3 to ± equal to length of sepals; hypanthium 1–1.5 × 3.5–5 mm, less than 1/2 as deep as wide, interior glabrous; sepals ± spreading, abaxially green, 3.5–7.5 mm; petals white to cream, often drying yellowish, cuneate to obcordate, (3.5–)4–8 × 2–8 mm, apex ± emarginate, sometimes rounded; filaments 1–3 × 0.5–1.5 mm, anthers 0.5–0.8 mm; carpels 5–15, styles 2–4 mm. Achenes dark brown, 2.4–3 mm, smooth to ± roughened.
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