Herbs perennial. Roots tuberous, carrot-shaped to narrowly conical. Rootstock short, robust. Stems 1-3, simple, erect, 20-50 cm. Leaves alternate; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic, ovate-oblanceolate, ovate, broadly ovate, or orbicular, 3.5-8 × 0.5-3 cm, base cuneate, margin irregularly serrate, apex obtuse-rounded or acuminate. Inflorescence horizontally branched, many flowered; bracts leaflike. Flowers unequally 5-merous. Sepals linear, unequal, 3-5 mm, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-10 mm, apex mucronate. Stamens 10, shorter than petals. Nectar scales subquadrangular, ca. 0.3 mm. Carpels ovoid-oblong, adaxially convex, base connate. Styles narrowly subulate. Follicles stellate, ca. 7 mm. Seeds ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.
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Flowering stems erect, 1.5-5 dm. Leaves alternate; blade elliptic-lanceolate, 4-8 cm, margins not glandular, those of distal leaves irregularly serrate. Flowers: sepals linear to lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 mm, apex blunt; petals erect basally, widely spreading distally, yellow, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 7-9 mm, apex mucronate. Carpels connate basally, divergent in fruit.
Dry grassy slopes and shrub thickets, dry meadows, rock streams, scrub, ravine edges in valleys, sandy, sunny, and grassy places on mountains, shady places on slopes, field banks, rock crevices; at elevations from 1,000-3,100 metres.
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