Stems erect to decumbent, never rooting nodally, hirsute, pilose, or glabrous, base not bulbous. Roots never tuberous. Basal leaf blades ovate to narrowly ovate in outline, 3-parted or-foliolate, 3.3-9.5 ×3.5-9.4 cm, leaflets or segments 1-3×-lobed, ultimate segments ovate or oblong-ovate to lanceolate, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers: receptacle glabrous; sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 3-8 × 2-4 mm, hirsute; petals 5-17, yellow, 6-12 × 3-6 mm. Heads of achenes hemispheric to globose, 6-9 × 7-10 mm; achenes 3.4-4.4 × 2.4-3.6 mm, glabrous or rarely hispid, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, deltate or lance-deltate, curved, 0.2-1.2 mm.
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