Russia Flora: Plant up to 30 cm tall. Rootstock ascending or vertical. Stem erect, simple, with 1-2 basal leaves on petioles up to 10 cm long and 1-2 stem leaves, sessile or with short petioles up to 2 cm long. Leaf blade 3-6 cm long and wide, rounded-pentagonal, five-dissected, with incised segments, margins unequally serrate-dentate. Flower stalks 3-10 cm long, in fruit up to 15 cm long. Flower solitary, 3-4 cm in diameter. Sepals 5(6), up to 2 cm long, 1-1.7 cm wide, obovate, yellow. Nectariferous petals about 4 mm long, spatulate, rounded at apex, orange, 1.5-2 times shorter than stamen filaments. Nectary pit at height of 1 mm. Anthers up to 1.7 mm long, elliptical. Carpels 5-7, up to 10 mm long. Style up to 1.4 mm long, straight or slightly curved.

Distribution: Okhotsk (south), Aldan, Upper Zeya, Lower Zeya, Bureya, Amgun, Ussuri (north, central). (Figure 4). - In meadows, from low mountains to the alpine zone, also in sparse forests of mountain areas, on gravelly areas along streams, on rocky slopes, limestone outcrops. Flowering period: June-July. - General distribution: Eastern Siberia. - Described from Khabarovsk: "Lower Amur region, Limuri River basin, on alpine plateau near stream. June 16, 1934. N. N. Zinger" (type - LE).