Herb up to 1 1/2 ft. high; rootstock stout, perennial; stems leafy, sparingly branched, rather densely hirsute with spreading hairs; leaves sessile, rather soft, usually pinnately 5-7-lobed, rarely almost entire, base rather narrow-cuneate, lobes entire, acute, margin glandular-setulose, setae rather long, 2 1/2-4 in. long, 3-5 in. across, lobes 3/4-2 in. long, 1/4-1/2 in. wide, densely hirsute, especially on the nerves on both surfaces, nerves underneath prominent; stipules dissected, lobules glanduliform, 1/10 in. long, cymes rather lax, usually many-flowered, hardly overtopping the leaves; peduncles 1-1 1/2 in. long, very densely hirsute with white soft spreading hairs; primary branches 1/2-3/4 in. long, densely and softly hirsute; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1/4 in. long or less, margins glandular-ciliate; male sepals narrow-lanceolate, softly hirsute with white hairs externally, glabrous within, margins glandular-setulose, 1/3 in. long; petals oblong, obtuse, silky outside, 2/5 in. long, slightly united at the base; disc-glands free; stamens 8, 2-seriate, united in a column for over three-fourths of their length; female sepals like the male; petals as in the male but free at the base, nearly 1/2 in. long; hypogynous glands free; ovary densely hirsute; styles 3, 2-lobed at the apex; capsule oblong, slightly 3-dymous, 2/3 in. long, 1/2 in. wide, pubescent; seeds narrow oblong, 2/5 in. long, 1/5 in. wide.
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