Small matted depressed herb up to 4 cm. tall, ± clad in long soft hairs. Stock stout, fleshy, creeping, branched, ± 5 mm. diam.; roots thick, fleshy. Lvs all radical, ± fleshy, crowded at tips of stock branches on flattened fleshy petioles up to 3 cm. long, clad in long weak hairs; sheath short, pilose. Lamina cuneate to obovate-cuneate, 1-2 cm. diam.; deeply 3-lobed, lobes again deeply 3-partite; ultimate segs up to 5 mm. long, linear to narrow-oblong. Scape 1-fld, up to 25 mm. long, stout; fls ± 1-2 cm. diam. Sepals 5, narrow-oblong, silky membr.; petals (5)-10-15, obovate-spathulate, bright yellow; gland 1 (sts 2-3) near base. Fruiting heads globose, 8-10 mm. diam.; receptacle pilose; achenes turgid, glab, to sparsely hairy; style stout, subulate.

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

Perennial up to 4 cm tall; rosettes tufted at tips of a stout branching rhizome which is often exposed on ground surface. Lvs 1-2-ternatifid, fleshy, softly hairy, 1.5-3 cm long. Scapes 1-flowered, hairy. Fls 1.5-2.5 cm diam. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 8-15, yellow, linear-obovate; nectaries 1-(3), 2-4 mm from petal base, shallow, naked. Receptacle hairy. Achenes (50)-60-80, turgid, glabrous or sparsely hairy; body c. 1 mm long; beak stout, straight, c. 1 mm long.