Tufted perennial; roots fibrous. Leaves mostly basal; petiole 1–25 cm long, with long spreading hairs; lamina (often broadly) ovate to elliptic in outline, 1–6 cm long and wide, simple and coarsely dentate, or trifoliolate, or biternately dissected or lobed with dentate segments, with short appressed hairs. Flowering stems 1 (–3)-flowered, 2–40 cm long, with spreading to subappressed hairs. Sepals 5, spreading, ± ovate, 3–7 mm long, hairy below. Petals 5 (rarely to 8), obovate-cuneate, 6–20 mm long, golden-yellow; nectary near petal-base, with lobe oblong, 0.2–1 mm long, usually emarginate and free for most of its length, rarely attached nearly throughout. Stamens 30–70. Pistils 20–65. Receptacle glabrous in stamen zone, hirsute above. Achenes lenticular, obovate-cuneate to semiorbicular, 2–3.5 mm long; faces smooth; margins narrowly ridged; beak 0.7–1 mm long, arching or strongly recurved, tip recoiled.
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