Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete, usually woody. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 8–16 cm tall, together with petioles white tomentose when young, later glabrescent. Radical leaves 5–12 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white sericeous-villous; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets sessile, adaxially green, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1–5 × 0.5–1.5 cm, leathery, abaxially densely white tomentose, sparsely sericeous pilose along midvein, adaxially white tomentose initially, later glabrescent, base cuneate or subrounded, margin obtusely or acutely coarsely many dentate, apex acute; cauline leaves undeveloped, bractlike; stipules minute, oblong-ovate, leathery, abaxially white tomentose, margin entire. Inflorescences cymose-paniculate, laxly many flowered. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–1.5 cm, white tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate or elliptic, shorter than or nearly equaling sepals, abaxially white tomentose and pilose, apex acute. Petals yellow, obovate, apex rounded. Style subterminal, base thickened; stigma slightly dilated. Achenes rugose. Fl. and fr. May–Jun.
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