Japan Flora: Greenish, silky-pubescent perennial herb 10-30 cm. high, with stout creeping rhizomes; stems ascending from base; radical leaves long-petided, orbicular, deeply cordate with a nearly closed sinus, 3-7 cm. in diameter, shdlowly 7- to 9-lobed, toothed, petioled, the stipules green, toothed; flowers densely subumbellate, about 3 mm. across; calyx hairy, the lobes 4, 1-1.2 mm. long; achenes solitary, ovoid, ghbnous, 1.5 mm. long, subacute. Alpine meadows.

Hokkaido (Mount Yubari), Honshu (centr. distr.); very rare.