Plants solitary or in compact, or sometimes loose, tufts, (usually wholly purple, sometimes green), not stoloniferous, not rhizomatous, with caudex. Leaves basal and cauline, (cauline 1-3, dissimilar from basal, reduced); petiole ± flattened, (2-)5-35 mm; blade reniform to orbiculate, (2-)3-5(-7)-lobed (lobes rounded), (2-)3-6(-10) mm, thin or slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sparsely stipitate-glandular, (inconspicuous nonsecreting hydathodes sometimes present), apex acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy. Inflorescences 2-5-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 1-5 cm, tangled, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts petiolate. Flowers: (hypanthium U-shaped in longisection, sparsely to densely long stipitate-glandular); sepals erect, (sometimes purple), ovate to lance-oblong, (1.5-2.1 mm wide), margins eciliate, surfaces ± stipitate-glandular; petals purple or white, often midvein ± purplish, faded when dried, not spotted, oblong, (1.5-)2-3.4(-5) mm, equaling or to 1.5 times sepals; ovary 1/2 inferior. 2n = 26.
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