Low-growing creeping silky-pubescent herb; stems finely grooved, slender, branching, with appressed hairs, rooting at nodes, up to 3 dm. long; plant often forming rather open patches up to c. 5 dm. diam. Lvs alt., sts in clusters of 2 or more at nodes; petioles slender, up to 3 cm. long; lamina ± (6)-10-20-(25) mm. diam., suborbicular to reniform, emarginate or rounded at apex, cordate at base with narrow sinus, silky-hairy on both surfaces. Peduncles very slender to filiform, up to c. 5 cm. long; basal bracts linear. Fls c. 4-5 mm. diam.; sepals obovate, silky, c. 4 mm. long; corolla c. 5 mm. long, greenish yellow, lobes narrow-spathulate, ± apiculate. Capsule c. 2-3 mm. diam., globose, hairy, enclosed in persistent calyx.

n = 15

2n = 30

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