Herbs perennial, 5–20 cm tall. Stems slender, appressed pilose. Leaf blade 3-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or terminal one shortly petiolulate, elliptic, long elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 1.5–5 × 0.8–3 cm, abaxially appressed pubescent with hairs dense and long on veins, adaxially pilose, base cuneate or oblique, margin incised serrate, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescence corymbiform, 1–3(or 4)-flowered. Flowers 1–2 cm in diam.; pedicel appressed pubescent. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, apex caudate; epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate or linear, equaling sepals, margin entire or lobed. Petals suborbicular, base tapering into a short claw. Stamens ca. 20, unequal. Aggregate fruit globose or ellipsoid; persistent sepals markedly reflexed. Achenes ovoid, glabrous, inconspicuously rugose at base. Fl. Apr–Jul, fr. Jun–Aug.

Valley forests, meadows on mountain slopes; 1600--3900 m. Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.