Plants tufted to ± matted; caudex branches usually short, stout, sometimes elongate, slender. Stems ascending to erect, 0.5–2(–3) dm, lengths 1.5–3 times basal leaves. Basal leaves 2-ranked, usually palmate, sometimes ternate, 2–10(–15) cm; stipules: apex obtuse to truncate, rarely acute; petiole 0.5–6.5(–10) cm, long hairs usually ± sparse, usually ± ascending, sometimes spreading or appressed, 1–2.5 mm, weak to ± stiff, glands absent or sparse; leaflets 3–5, central obovate, 1.5–3(–3.5) × 0.8–1.5(–2) cm, petiolule 0–1 mm, margins flat, not lobed, distal 1/2–2/3 evenly incised 1/3–1/2 to midvein, teeth 3–4(–5) per side, ?not secondarily toothed?, surfaces similar, green, ?not glaucous?, hairs absent or sparse, rarely common, 0.8–1.5 mm, glands absent or sparse to abundant (fewer adaxially). Inflorescences (2–)3–8(–12)-flowered. Pedicels straight, 1–3(–4) cm in flower, to 6 cm in fruit. Flowers: epicalyx bractlets ovate or narrowly ovate, (1.5–)2.5–4 × (0.8–)1–1.3 mm, margins flat; hypanthium 3–4 mm diam.; sepals (3–)4–5(–6) mm, apex broadly acute; petals yellow, 4–7(–9) × 4–8 mm; filaments 1.8–2.2 mm, anthers 0.3–0.6 mm; carpels 30–40, styles columnar-filiform, not papillate-swollen proximally, 1–1.6 mm. Achenes 1.2 mm. 2n = 42; 28, 35, 49 (Europe).
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