Japan Flora: Rhizomes elongate, branched, creeping; leaves broadly ovate， 4-12 cm. long, 4-10 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, deeply cordate, acutely 5- to 7-lobed> incised and toothed, thinly pilose above, glabrous beneath, the petioles 15-30 cm. long, glabrous, the stipules glabrous; scapes glabrous, 20-40 cm. long; racemes 10-20 cm. long, rather densely short-glandular, many-flowered; calyx-lobes erect in anthesis, recurved at the tip, ovate-deltoid; petals 3-parted, minutely glandular; styles 2, very short, the stigma thickened, indistincdy 2-lobed; seeds not papillose. May-June. Wet places along ravines and streams in mountains;

Honshu (Japan Sea side of centr. and Kinki Distr.).