Herbs perennial, tufted, pulvinate. Roots stout, terete. Flowering stems erect, 4–12 cm tall, pilose. Radical leaves 2–6 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white pilose, later glabrescent; petiole white villous; leaf blade pinnately to palmately 5-foliolate; leaflets adaxially dark green, linear, 0.8–1.7 cm × 1–3 mm, abaxially densely white villous on midvein, adaxially pilose, base decurrent and adnate to rachis in apical pair of leaflets, margin entire and revolute, but in basal pair of leaflets sometimes 2-parted nearly to base, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers 1 or 2(or 3), 1.2–1.8 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–2 cm, pilose, proximally with linear bract. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, slightly shorter or longer than sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, oblong-obovate, 0.5–1 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, filiform; stigma hardly dilated. Achenes smooth, hairy around hilum. Fl. and fr. Jun–Oct.
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Basal leaves: petiole 1–4 cm, long hairs absent or sparse, 1.5–2 mm, crisped hairs absent or sparse; leaflet lobes linear, 10–20 × 1–2 mm, surfaces with long hairs sparse or absent. Flowers: epicalyx bractlets oblong, ovate, or lanceolate, 2.5–4 × 0.4–1.3 mm; sepals 3.5–5 mm, apex acute to apiculate; petals 6–10 × 4–10 mm; filaments 2.8–4 mm, anthers 0.6 mm; carpels 15–25. Achenes 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 14.
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