Leaves 4--7; petiole 2--6 cm × 1--2 mm, villous; leaf blade 3-sect, elliptic-ovate, ca. 2 × 1 cm, densely pubescent, base subcordate or broadly cuneate; central segment petiolulate (petiolule 3--5 mm), 3-sect or 3-parted, rhombic-obovate, margin incised dentate, apex rounded or obtuse, central secondary segment also distinctly petiolulate, 3-parted; lateral segments subsessile, unequally 3-lobed, obliquely cuneate. Scapes 2--5, 3--10 cm, villous; cyme 1-flowered. Involucral bract blade subequally 3-lobed, elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, ca. 1 cm; lobes entire or central one 3-dentate, puberulent, apex obtuse. Pedicel 1--4 cm, puberulent. Sepals 5, white, blue, purplish, or violet, elliptic-obovate, 5--8 × 4--6 mm, villous, basal veins 3--5, vein anastomoses absent. Stamens 2--4 mm; filament linear, anther ca. 1 mm, apex rounded. Pistils cylindric, 2.7--3.2 mm; ovary villous; style curved, glabrous.

* Alpine meadows; ca. 3700 m. SW Sichuan (Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian).