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Perennial; rhizome short, oblique or vertical, rather stout, bearing rosette of leaves and flowers at apex, acaulescent. Leaves 1½-7½ by ½-3 cm, 1-19 times as long as broad, linear-lanceolate to triangular-hastate or triangular-ovate, cuneate, truncate or widely and shallowly cordate with basal lobes often laterally prominent, acute or sometimes roundish obtuse, shallowly and distantly crenate, sometimes dentate on basal lobes, usually long-decurrent on petiole, glabrous; petiole 1-10 ½ cm. Stipules 2-7 by ½-1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely short-fimbriate, glabrous, fuscous, adnate to petiole to ¾ length. Flowers 6-14½ mm, white to purple with darker veins; peduncle equalling or exceeding leaves, glabrous. Sepals 3-6½ by 0.6-2.5 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous or ciliate, green with scarious margins; appendage 0.2-2½ mm or absent, (½-) ⅓-1/7 as long as sepal, rounded to squarish or somewhat sub-dentate, glabrous. Petals 1½-3.4 times as long as broad, obovate, laterals usually bearded; spur 0.6-3½ mm, half to twice as long as broad, cylindrical, obtuse, straight or slightly upcurved. Style 1½-2½ mm, geniculate at base, clavate distally, apex with prominent marginal lobes fused behind, anterior stigmatic beak. Capsule 7-10 mm, ellipsoid to oblong, glabrous.
Rhizomatous perennial herb, glabrous or slightly pubescent; rootstock short, erect; stolons absent. Leaves radical, crowded; lamina ± oblong, triangular or lanceolate with cuneate base or narrowly hastate, obtuse, 10–90 mm long, 5–35 (–70) mm wide, entire or shallowly crenate; petiole 1.5–20 (–30) cm long; stipules linear, acute, entire or laciniate, adnate. Flower-scape to 28 cm long, sometimes more; bracteoles below middle, subulate or obtuse. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3–6 mm long, with small basal appendages. Petals 9–20 mm long, the anterior with short, broad spur, the laterals bearded inside, violet to almost white, gold at base. Style clavate, geniculate near base. Capsule ellipsoidal, acute, 7–13 mm long. Seed ovoid, 1–1.5 mm diam., pale brown; aril small.
