Tufted perennial; roots fibrous; stems and leaves with short appressed hairs. Leaves with petioles 5–8.5 cm long; lamina ovate in outline, 7–35 mm long, pinnate with 3–7 ovate, ternately lobed leaflets; terminal lobe entire or tridentate and lateral lobes often bifid. Flowering stem 1-flowered, mostly 1–5 cm long at anthesis, elongating to 12–45 cm in fruit. Sepals 5, spreading, rarely slightly reflexed, ovate to elliptic, 2–2.5 mm long, pubescent below. Petals 5, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm long, pale yellow; nectary near petal-base, shallowly pocket-like, c. 0.5 mm long, with lobe free for most of nectary-length, almost as wide as petal. Stamens 15–20. Pistils 25–45. Receptacle ± glabrous in stamen zone, hirsute above. Achenes lenticular, elliptic to semiorbicular, 1.5–2 mm long; lateral faces smooth; beak slender, 0.3–0.8 mm long, strongly recurved.
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