Stems 0.5–0.7 m; herbage sparingly stellate to glabrate, hairs obscurely stellate. Leaf blades deeply 5-or 7-lobed, 5–10 cm wide, lobes narrowly triangular, central lobe 2–3 times longer than lateral lobes, base cordate to truncate, margins coarsely serrate. Inflorescences solitary flowers in distal leaf axils, appearing racemose; involucellar bractlets linear, 8–10 × 1 mm, 1/2–2/3 as long as calyx. Flowers: calyx 10–15 mm, lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 9–12 mm, longer than wide, longer than tube, apex acuminate; petals whitish or pinkish, 2–2.5 cm. Schizocarps unknown. Seeds 2–4 per mericarp, glabrous.