Perennials 7-25 cm tall, stemless, pubescent. Rhizome creeping underground, entirely densely covered by dark brown scalelike remains of leaf bases, 6-12 mm thick including scales; scales strigose. Leaves basal; petiole 6-20 cm, pubescent, trichomes brown and curled; leaflet blades obtriangular, 1-2.5(-4.5) × 1.5-3.5(-5.5) cm, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous, apex broadly emarginate to subtruncate; lobe apices obtuse. Flowers solitary, nodding; peduncle 4-15 cm, equal to or longer than leaves; bracts at middle of flowering stalk, lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm, with dense trichomes along midvein and margins. Sepals lanceolate, 5-7 mm, persistent. Petals white with lilac veins, rarely pink (Hubei), narrowly obovate, 1.2-1.6 (-2) cm, apex retuse to deeply emarginate. Capsule oblong-conic, 5-13 × 5-6 mm. Seeds ovoid, 2.5-3.5 mm, longitudinally ridged. Fl. Mar-Sep, fr. May-Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It is 7-25 cm tall. It has creeping rhizomes underground. The leaves have leaflets that are almost triangle shaped and 1-3 cm long by 2-4 cm wide.
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