Herbs perennial, woody based. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5-14 cm tall, appressed or subappresed pilose. Radical leaves and petiole 2-10 cm long; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely strigose; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets usually shortly petiolulate or subsessile, green on both surfaces, broadly obovate or elliptic, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, both surfaces sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin 3-5-dentate, apex truncate; teeth ovate, apex acute or obtuse; cauline leaves 1-2, resembling radical ones but leaflets smaller; stipules green, lanceolate, herbaceous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, compact, corymbose. Flowers 5-10 cm in diameter. Sepals ovate or oblong, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, equaling sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral. Achenes glabrous.