Stems prostrate, trailing, invested with silvery-white, lepidote scales. Leaves: petiole to 1/3 as long as blade; blade narrowly triangular, 1.5–3.5 cm, usually 3–5(–6) times as long as wide, base truncate, margins entire with 2–4 hastate teeth at base, apex acute, surfaces with sparse, silvery-lepidote scales. Pedicels long, usually shorter than subtending leaves, involucellar bractlets 0. Flowers: calyx 7–9 mm, silvery-lepidote, lobes cordate-ovate, bases plicate-overlapping, apex acuminate; petals whitish or pale yellow, sometimes fading rose, asymmetric, 15 mm; stamens pallid, glabrous, staminal column antheriferous at apex; style 7-or 8-branched, pallid, glabrous. Schizocarps 5–6 mm diam.
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