Plants 8-45 cm tall. Stolons filiform, densely crisped glandular villous, with scaly leaves. Stem glandular villous. Basal leaves with petiole 15-21 cm, glandular piliferous; leaf blade spotted, subcordate or reniform to orbicular, 1.5-7.5 × 2-12 cm, (5-)7-11-lobed, glandular hairy, base subtruncate or rounded to cordate, margin irregularly dentate, apex obtuse or acute. Cauline leaves and bracts 1-4, lanceolate, ca. 6 × 2 mm. Inflorescence 7-61-flowered. Sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate, 1.5-3.5 × 1-1.8 mm, abaxially and marginally glandular hairy, 3-veined; veins confluent at apex. Petals 5, white, spotted, of which largest two lanceolate-oblong, 0.6-1.5 cm × 2-4 mm, base clawed, apex acute, pinniveined; smallest three petals ovate, 2-4.4 × 1.3-2 mm. Stamens 4-5.2 mm. Ovary ovoid, with a semiannular nectary disc; styles divergent. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov. 2n = 30, 36*, 54.
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A herb which keeps growing from year to year. It grows 40 cm high and spreads 30 cm wide. It has long thin stolons or runners. The leaves are round or kidney shaped. They are reddish underneath and the veins are silvery above. It has panicles of white flowers. These are spotted with red or yellow. The flower stalks are 40 cm long.
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