Herbs perennial, caulescent, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent. Aerial stems usually 2–8 from base, decumbent to ascending, 10–40 cm, becoming woody proximally, sparsely to densely pilose, <hairs spreading irregularly to ± deflexed, nonseptate, longer hairs 0.6–1.2 mm>. Leaves basal and cauline; stipules oblong, margins narrowly flanged, apical auricles absent; petiole (1–)2–6 cm, <hairs nonseptate>; leaflets 3, glaucous and gray-green to yellowish green, obcordate, 5–12 mm, lobed 1/5–1/3 length, surfaces glabrous to loosely strigose to hirsute-villous, oxalate deposits absent. Inflorescences umbelliform cymes, 1–2(–3)-flowered; peduncles 1.5–5 cm. Flowers semihomostylous or distylous, <within level of leaves>; sepal apices without tubercles, <surfaces strigose to hirsute-strigose>; petals yellow, rarely with red lines proximally, 8–12 mm. Capsules angular-cylindric, abruptly tapering to apex, 12–17(–20) mm, strigose-hirsute. <Seeds brown to blackish brown, transverse ridges rarely with whitish lines or spots>.
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