Glab. fleshy glaucous herb up to ± 8 cm. tall; stock very short, stout, ascending; main roots fleshy. Lvs all radical, on petioles 2.5-8 cm. long, with broad sheaths. Lamina subreniform to oblong in outline, (1)-3-5-(8)cm. long, biternately multifid, final segs linear ± 2.5 mm. long, obtuse. Scape stout, 1-fld, 1-2.5 cm. long; bracts 0 or multisect. Fls ± 2 cm. diam.; sepals 5, linear-oblong; petals 5, narrow obcuneate, slightly emarginate, yellow; gland 1, basal. Fruiting heads globose, 8-10 mm. diam.; achenes turgid, keeled, 2-3 mm. long, obliquely oval; style subulate, straight.

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

Glabrous perennial, 5-10 cm tall; rosettes tufted, on stout creeping or ascending rhizomes. Lvs suborbicular, deeply (rarely shallowly) 3-lobed to 2-ternatisect, coriaceous, glaucous, 5-10 cm long; lobes toothed, crenate or dissected into linear obtuse segments, irregularly pitted with shallow brown depressions distinct from the network of grooves over the veins. Scapes 1-flowered, erect at flowering, recurved at fruiting. Fls 3-5 cm diam. Sepals spreading, glabrous. Petals 5-6, yellow, obovate-cuneate; nectaries 1-(3), 1-4 mm from petal base, naked. Receptacle glabrous. Achenes 12-20, subglobose, turgid, glabrous; body 2.5-3 mm long; beak straight or curved, 2.5-3.5 mm long.