Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous, subequally thick. Stems 6--25(--30) cm, puberulent, branched. Basal leaves 5--10 or more; petiole 1.5--5.5 cm, puberulent; blade 3-sect, pentagonal or broadly ovate, 0.8--1.5(--2.6) × 1--2(--3.4) cm, papery, appressed puberulent or only abaxially, base cordate, segments sessile or short stalked; central segment broadly rhombic or cuneate-rhombic; lateral segments obliquely flabellate, 2 × dissected, ultimate lobes linear-lanceolate or linear. Stem leaves short petiolate or sessile, palmately 3--5-sect, segments narrowly linear. Monochasium terminal, 2- or 3-flowered, rarely 1-flowered; bracts leaflike. Flowers 0.8--1.9 cm in diam. Pedicel 1--6 cm, densely puberulent. Receptacle puberulent. Sepals 5, narrowly elliptic, 3--4 mm, abaxially appressed yellowish puberulent. Petals 5, obovate or obovate-elliptic, 4.5--8.5 × 2--6.5 mm, nectary pit without a scale, apex rounded or truncate-rounded. Stamens numerous; anthers oblong. Aggregate fruit narrowly ovoid, 3--6.5 × 3--4 mm. Achene slightly bilaterally compressed, obovoid, 1--1.5 × 0.8--1.1 mm. Style persistent, ca. 0.8 mm. Fl. Jun--Oct.

2200--4200 m. Gansu, SW Nei Mongol, Ningxia, E Qinghai, S Shaanxi (Taibai Shan), C and NW Shanxi, W Sichuan, S and E Xizang, NW Yunnan [Nepal].