Tufted perennial; roots often subtuberous and fleshy, but gradually tapered. Leaves mostly basal; petiole 1–12 cm long, with spreading or subappressed hairs; lamina ovate to elliptic in outline, 0.8–4.5 cm long and wide, simple, 3-lobed to deeply ternately dissected, the segments acutely toothed or further lobed, with soft subappressed hairs. Flowering stems 1–5-flowered, 5–20 (–40) cm high, hairs spreading near base, usually appressed above. Sepals 5, spreading, ovate to obovate, 3–7 mm long, with spreading hairs below. Petals 5, obovate-cuneate, 6–15 mm long, golden-yellow; nectary near petal-base, with lobe oblong to cuneate, 1–2 mm long, free for c. half its length. Stamens 25–45. Pistils 15–30. Receptacle glabrous in stamen zone, pubescent above. Achenes globular or plumply obovoid-cuneate with thick pericarp, 2.5–5 mm long; lateral faces smooth, often with shallow dorsal groove; beak 1.5–2 mm long, recurved or straight with recurved tip.
Usually on heavyish, winter-wet soils or on shallow soils or moss mats overlying rock, in forest, woodland and herbfield.
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