Plants 45--65 cm tall, glabrous. Stems branched. Leaves both basal and cauline; stipules membranous, margin entire; petiole ca. 8 cm; leaf blade 2- or 3-ternate, 9.5--13 cm; petiolule 0.9--1.6 mm; leaflet blade broadly obovate or orbicular, (1.4--) 2--4 × (1.2--)2.5--4 cm, herbaceous, base rounded or subcordate, apex 3-lobed; veins slightly raised abaxially, flat adaxially. Inflorescence paniculate. Pedicel 1.2--3.2 mm. Sepals early deciduous, white, elliptic, ca. 3.5 mm. Stamens ca. 4 mm; filament narrowly oblanceolate, broader than anther; anther elliptic, 0.8--1 mm. Carpels 10--20; style circinate, ca. 2.2 mm, equaling ovary. Achene stipe ca. 0.8 mm; body narrowly ovoid, 7--9 mm; veins ca. 8. Fl. Jun.

* Forests, scrub; 900--2900 m. Gansu, Hebei, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan.