Plants densely cushion-to loosely mat-forming, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, not rhizomatous, with ± woody caudex. Leaves basal and proximal cauline, (marcescent, crowded); petiole flattened, 2-6(-12) mm; blade elliptic to obovate or spatulate, 3(-5)-lobed apically (lobes oblong-elliptic), 4-15(-25) mm, ± fleshy, margins entire, sparsely short glandular-ciliate (mostly proximally), (nonsecreting hydathodes present adaxially at each lobe apex), apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely to densely short stipitate-glandular. Inflorescences 2-5-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, to 2-15(-20) cm, densely clear-or cream-to pinkish yellow-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. Flowers: sepals erect to spreading, triangular or ovate to elliptic, margins stipitate-glandular, surfaces stipitate-glandular; petals white, proximally greenish to yellowish tinged, not spotted but sometimes striate, elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, (1.5-)3-7(-15) mm, equaling or longer than sepals; ovary inferior. 2n = 78, 80.
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