Erect or spreading branched fulvous-hairy herb up to ± 3 dm. tall; stock stout, main roots ∞.Radical lvs on petioles up to 15 cm. long, with broad sheaths. Lamina obovate to obovate-cuneate, 1-2.5-(4) cm. diam.; clad in soft long subappressed hairs; margins crenately lobed to coarsely toothed. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, often opp. or clustered in upper part of branches. Scapes or peduncles ± 7-14 cm. long, 1-2-fld. Fls 8-15 mm. or more diam.; sepals 5, oblong, spreading; petals 5, narrow-oblong, gland 1 near base. Fruiting heads subglobose, ± 8 mm. diam.; receptacle ± pilose; achenes slightly swollen, margined, ± 2 mm. long; style ± 1 mm. long, subulate, ± recurved.

Small rosette herb clad in sparse long hairs; stock ± 1 cm. diam.; roots ∞, soft, white. Lvs radical, ± prostrate on rather stout petioles ± twice length of lamina. Lamina deltoid in outline, 1·5 cm. diam., cordate, ± deeply 3-segmented; segs 3-4-lobed, mucronate, often mottled brown at base, margins ciliate. Scape rather stout, thinly pilose, attaining 5 cm. in fruit. Fls subsessile at anthesis; sepals 5, oblong, 5 × 2 mm., pale, membr., tips fringed; petals oblong, rounded at apex; gland 1 near base; achenes ± 30 forming globose heads ± 6 mm. diam., obliquely orbicular, slightly compressed; style short, hooked.

Spreading sparsely hairy herb up to ± 25 cm. long; stock rather slender to stout, main roots ∞.Radical lvs on slender petioles up to 15 cm. or more long, clad sparsely in appressed hairs; lamina pale green, up to 4 cm. diam., deltoid to broad-ovate, truncate to subcordate at base, irregularly crenately 3-5-lobed or coarsely crenate. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, often opp. Scape us. lengthening in fruit up to 15 cm. long. Fls us. in axils of cauline lvs, ± 1 cm. diam., pedicels short; sepals 5, ± 3 mm. long, ovate, membr.; petals 5, ± 6 mm. long, oblong, rounded at tips, yellow; gland basal 1. Fruiting heads ovoid 8-10 mm. long; receptacle glabrate; achenes obliquely obovate, ± 4 × 2 mm., compressed, margined; style minute, stout, straight.

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

Tufted perennial with usually fulvous hairs; rhizome 0; stem ascending, shortly decumbent at base, to 20-(35) cm tall. Lvs shallowly to deeply ternatifid, rarely ternate, hairy, 10-30-(50) × 10-30-(50) mm; lobes toothed or crenate, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed. Fls (1)-2-3-(10) per stem, usually pedunculate, sometimes sessile, (10)-15-20 mm diam., subtended by opposite or whorled cauline lvs. Pedicels terete, hairy, elongating at fruiting. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 5 or 0, yellow, obovate. Nectary single, 1 mm or more from petal base, covered by a small triangular or truncate scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 30-60 in globose heads, flattened, glabrous or with a few stiff hairs on back, 2.5-3.5-(4) mm long; beak rather broad, flattened, usually curved, 0.5-1 mm long.