Tufted perennial (rarely developing ± erect stolons); roots fibrous. Leaves with petioles 1–10 cm long, hirsute near base; lamina 8–25 mm wide and long overall, the lower usually simple and oblong-cuneate or broadly elliptic with 3–7 teeth, the upper broadly ovate and entire, 3-dentate or ternately lobed, or occasionally pinnate with 3 (–5) ± elliptic, coarsely toothed leaflets, glabrous or nearly so above, glabrous to hirsute below. Flowering stems stout, 1–9 cm long, ± hirsute, 1–3-flowered; pedicels elongating and recurving in fruit. Sepals 5, spreading, broadly elliptic, c. 1 mm long, ± glabrous. Petals 0–6, oblanceolate to obovate, 2.5–5.5 mm long, pale-yellow, often golden at apex; nectary c. 1/3 petal-length above base, crescentic or a short (c. 0.3 mm), fleshy, obtuse lobe developed. Stamens 8–20. Pistils 6–16. Receptacle ± hirsute. Achenes sublenticular, shortly stipitate, ± compressed, 1.5–2 mm long, minutely dimpled, margins not prominent; beak recurved or recoiled at apex, 0.4–0.8 mm long.
Grows in montane and subalpine grasslands, creeks, swamps and bogs, c. 550–1200 m alt.
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