Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 20–50 cm tall, together with petioles pubescent, villous, and stipitate or sessile red glandular. Radical leaves 8–20 cm including petiole; stipules dark brown to purple, membranous, abaxially densely pubescent, villous, and stipitate or sessile red glandular; leaf blade palmately or subpedately 5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or shortly petiolulate, obovate-cuneate or obovate, abaxially pubescent, villous, and stipitate or sessile red glandular, adaxially pilose or glabrescent, margin coarsely obtusely many serrate; cauline leaves: stipules herbaceous, abaxially densely pubescent and glandular, margin entire or 2-parted, apex acuminate; leaf blade 5-foliolate, uppermost ones 3-foliolate; leaflets resembling those of radical leaves, shortly petiolulate. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose-cymose. Flowers 1.5–2 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–2 cm, pubescent, villous, and stipitate or sessile glandular. Sepals ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, apex acute or acuminate; epicalyx segments erect after flowering, lanceolate, nearly equaling sepals, abaxially pubescent, villous, and stipitate or sessile glandular, apex acuminate, usually 2-fid. Petals yellow, obovate, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base markedly thickened; stigma dilated. Achenes smooth or inconspicuously rugose. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.

Ravines, river banks; ca. 1700 m. Xinjiang [India, Mongolia, Russia].