Annual to biennial low-growing sparsely hairy herb with rather stout stock. Stems few, procumbent or spreading, sparingly branched, up to 3 dm. or more long; branches glabrescent, grooved. Lvs on petioles up to 7 cm. or more long, basal ones soon withering. Lamina 15-35 × 17-45 mm., broad-cordate, obtuse, subcoriac., glabrescent, very shallowly and obscurely 3-5-lobed, rather finely crenate. Stipules ovate ± scarious. Fls 6-10 mm. diam., in umbels of (5)-10-(15) on pedicels up to 6 mm. long; peduncles very slender, up to ± 10 cm. long. Sepals narrow ovate-oblong, ± awned, ± 3-4 mm. long; spur minute; petals pink to reddish, occ. white, > sepals, spathulate, retuse. Stamens 5, staminodes 5.Carpels up to c. 15 mm. .long, including beak; valves pilose, beak pubescent.

n = 11

Annual or biennial hairy herb; stems sprawling, grooved, procumbent or spreading, sparingly branched. Petioles to 10-(30) cm long. Stipules small, ovate, ± scarious. Lamina (1)-1.5-5.5-(11) × (1)-1.7-5.5-(11) cm, broad-ovate or ± reniform, not lobed or with 3-5 shallow lobes, crenate or crenulate; base deeply and broadly cordate. Fls irregular, 5-15 in dense umbels; peduncles to c. 10 cm long, very slender; pedicels to c. 6 mm long. Sepals 2.5-5 mm long, ovate-oblong, mucronate or acute; calyx spur minute. Petals 3.5-6.5 mm long, usually pink or rose with purplish streaks on larger upper 2, occasionally white, spathulate, obovate, or oblanceolate. Mericarps 2-2.8 mm long; awn with long, patently pilose hairs. Seed black.