Plants perennial, herbaceous, 0.5-2 m tall;

caudex woody, branched, often deeply rooted;

herbage sparsely pubescent; hairs minute, stellate;

stems erect, often branched.

Leaves all cauline;

petioles 2-7(10) cm long;

blades 4.5-10(14) cm long, 4.5-16 (cm) wide, cordate-orbicular, palmately 3-7 lobed;

margins coarsely toothed.

venation palmate;

lobe tips acute to acuminate.