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Stems erect to decumbent, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based, spheric or ellipsoid bulbils sometimes formed in leaf axils. Tuberous roots present. Basal leaves simple and undivided, blades cordate to deltate or semicircular, 1.8-3.7 × 2-4 cm, base cordate, margins entire or crenate, apex rounded or obtuse. Flowers: receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, saccate at extreme base, 4-9 × 3-6 mm, glabrous; petals yellow, 10-15 × 3-7 mm. Heads of achenes hemispheric, 4-5 × 6-8 mm; achenes 2.6-2.8 × 1.8-2 mm, pubescent; beak absent.
Perennial from a cluster of tuberous roots, 1–3 dm, with a few short internodes below and 1 or few long peduncles; lvs long-petiolate, cordate to oblong-cordate, blunt, entire or sinuately toothed, often with axillary bulbils; lower lvs apparently opposite; sep 3–4, green; pet 8–12, yellow, narrowly obovate, mostly 10–18 mm; achenes beakless; 2n=16, 24, 32. Native of Eurasia, casually escaped from cult. in our range.
A herb.
