Japan Flora: Decumbent, much-branched dwarf shrub; leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to broadly ovate-clliptic, 10-20 mm. long, 6-15 mm. wide, obtuse, shallowly and obtusely lobulate and slightly recurved on margin, green above with impressed midrib and nerves, densely white-tomentose beneath, the peti­ole 5-20 mm. long, white-pubescent; pedicels 3-10 cm. long, white-woolly; petals 10-15 mm. long, rounded at apex; achenes about 3 mm. long, pubescent; styles elongate, about 3 cm. long, plumose with white hairs. July-Aug. Dry alpine slopes.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.); rare. Kam­chatka, Kuriles, Sakhalin, Ussuri, Ajan, and n. Korea. cold regions of the N. Hemisphere.