Herbs perennial, woody based. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5–14 cm tall, appressed or subappresed pilose. Radical leaves 1.5–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely strigose; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets usually shortly petiolulate or subsessile, green on both surfaces, broadly obovate or elliptic, 0.8–2.5 × 0.6–1.8 cm, both surfaces sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin 3–5-dentate, apex truncate; teeth ovate, apex acute or obtuse; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones but leaflets smaller; stipules green, lanceolate, herbaceous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, compact, corymbose. Flowers 5–7 mm in diam. Sepals ovate or oblong, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, equaling sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral. Achenes glabrous. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a woody base. The flowering stems are erect ad 5-14 cm tall. The leaves are the base are 2-10 cm long. They have 3 leaflets. They are broadly oval and 1-3 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. There are 3-5 teeth along the edge. The leaves on the stems are smaller. The flowers are in a compact group at the top of the plant.
It is a temperate plant. In China it grows in alpine meadows and rock crevices between 3,400-4,500 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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