Japan Flora: Rhizomes creeping, branched; stolons subterranean; radical leaves few, cordate-orbicular, 2-7 cm. in diameter, shallowly 5-lobed, obtusely toothed, long-hairy and glandular-puberulent, the stipules membranous, brown, the petioles 2-10 cm. long; scapes 10-40 cm. long, glandular-puberulent, with 2 or 3 short-petioled cauline leaves; racemes often with a short numerous, white, nodding; calyx-lobes 1-2 mm. long, narrowly ovate; petals subulate-linear, slightly longer than the calyx-lobes; stamens exserted; capsule-valves very unequal, 7-12 mm. long. June-Aug. Damp woods in mountains; 

Hokkaido, Honshu (Kinki Distr and northw.), Shikoku. China, Formosa, and Himalayas.