2n = 112

Perennial herb, with slender or sometimes fairly stout caulorrhiza. Hairs soft, retrorse or antrorse, generally appressed and often short, sometimes spreading. Stems slender, prostrate or spreading, with ± retrorse hairs; branches usually many. Basal lvs rarely persistent through growing season; petioles to 12-(19) cm long; hairs retrorse and dense. Lamina usually to 3-(4) cm diam., reniform to orbicular or broadly ovate, lobed 3/4-⅞ way to midrib; lobes (3)-5, narrowly to broadly obovate-cuneate, obovate-elliptic, obovate-oblong, or oblong, with appressed hairs on both sides or glabrous above, rounded to acute or mucronate at apex; larger lobes usually with 2 ± oblong or elliptic secondary lobes. Cauline lvs smaller, with fewer lobes. Peduncles (with pedicels) usually 1-3-(4) cm long, filiform, with dense, retrorse hairs; bracteoles subulate or linear-subulate; fls 1-(2). Sepals 3-5-(6) × 1-2.5 mm, lanceolate to elliptic, broadly elliptic or ± ovate, usually with green margin, sometimes completely purple; hairs ± spreading, often very short and antrorse towards apex, sometimes few. Petals 4-5 × 2-2.5 mm, broadly obovate, pink. Mericarps 2-3 mm long, with ± dense hairs; beak (6)-7-10 mm long. Seed 1.5-1.9 mm long, oblong, distinctly alveolate.