Tufted herb up to 15 cm. or more tall, densely to sparsely hairy. Stock rather stout, erect, sts multicipital. Lvs us.(, radical, on petioles up to 5 cm. or more long. Lamina (0·5)-1-2-(4) cm. diam.; broad ovate to suborbicular in outline, 3-lobed to 3-foliolate, or variously toothed, rarely subentire. Scapes few to many, nude, 1-fld, us. elongating in fruit. Fls small to rather large, pale to golden yellow; sepals 5, spreading; petals 5 (rarely more) obovate to oblong; gland 1 near base. Fruiting heads small; achenes compressed to slightly swollen, glab., margined; style us. rather strongly hooked.

2n = 16, (32)

2n = 16

2n = 16

2n = 32

Tufted, scapose perennial, (5)-10-35 cm tall; rhizome 0. Lvs simple, oblanceolate to ovate to very broadly ovate or obovate, (3)-5-9-(11)-toothed, sometimes shallowly 3-5-lobed, hairy, (5)-10-20 × (4)-8-18 mm. Fls solitary, long-stalked, 10-20 mm diam. Scapes terete, hairy; hairs often wavy, sometimes appressed above. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 5-(6), yellow, often purplish beneath, obovate or narrow-obovate; nectary single, basal, covered by a truncate scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 15-30, flattened, glabrous, 2-3.5 mm long; beak curved or ± straight, 0.5-1 mm long.