Plants perennial, glabrous, with vertical rootstock and densely tufted underground stolons. Stems erect, rarely ascending, tufted at base and branched only in inflorescence, occasionally inflorescences simple or nearly so, 10-40(-60) cm. Leaves: blade normally broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, usually not hastate (without basal lobes), 3-7(-10) × (0.6-)1-3(-4) cm, base narrowly cuneate (gradually narrowing into petiole), margins entire, flat, apex obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 2/ 3 of stem, usually lax and interrupted at least near base, narrowly paniculate, rarely simple. Pedicels articulated in proximal 1/ 3, filiform, 1-3(-5) mm, articulation slightly swollen. Flowers 3-10(-12) in whorls; inner tepals broadly ovate or almost orbiculate, 2.8-3.8 × 2.7-3.6 mm, base cordate or rounded-truncate, apex obtuse or subacute; tubercles absent. Achenes brown, 1.2-1.8 × 0.8-1 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
Montane areas from lower wet meadows to moist slopes above the tree line. Meadows, gravelly and grassy slopes, banks of rivers and streams in alpine, subalpine, and montane zones; at elevations from 2,000-3,000 metres.
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