Stems: caudex 2.5-4.5 cm, densely clothed with persistent leaf bases. Basal leaf blades reniform, shallowly 5-9-lobed or sometimes 3-parted with lateral segments again lobed, 1.5-1.5 × 0.8-2 cm, base truncate, middle segment unlobed, ultimate segments and sinuses rounded or obtuse. Flowers: petals 6-13 mm.

Flowering summer (Jul-Sep). Open rocky alpine slopes and meadows; 2900-4000 m; Calif., Nev.