Perennial; caudex with rosettes from which flower-bearing stems and lateral rosettes, sessile or on short stolons from the upper leaf axils. Stems 20-50 cm, erect or ascending, nearly terete, more or less ribbed, densely hirsute to subhirsute, little branched and few-leaved beneath, terminated by a corymbiform inflorescence of umbels. Sheaths of the rosette leaves 2 by ½-1⅓ cm, outside glabrous, towards the apex hirsute and ciliate, hairs 2-4 mm; petioles 5-15 cm, hirsute; lamina 5-13 by 7-14 cm, in outline roundish, deeply cordate, 3-7-palmatifid, segments obovate, 3-lobed, biserrate, densely hirsute; cauline leaves and inflorescence bracts gradually smaller and shorter petioled, uppermost ones subsessile with less numerous and narrower segments and smaller sheaths. Peduncles 2½-6 cm, upper ones shorter; involucres numerous, nearly 10 mm, narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, appressed; pedicels more than 50, up to 17 mm, inner ones shorter, spreading, incurved in fruit. Calyx teeth small, acute, persistent. Petals white, nearly 2½ by 1½ mm, elliptic, acute. Styles nearly 3 mm, persistent. Mericarps nearly 4 by 3 mm, red.
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