Japan Flora: Coarse peren­nial herb with yellowish spreading strigose hairs; rhizomes stout, short, creeping and branching; radical leaves petioled, the terminal leaflet orbicular, 5-12 cm. long and as wide, shal­lowly lobulate and irregularly toothed, cordate at base, lustrous above, the lateral ones minute, few; scapes 10-30 cm. long, erect, few-flowered; flowers 2-25 cm. across, yellow; calyx and pedicels densely puberulent, the calyx-segments acute, ob­liquely spreading; achenes many, long hispid-hairy including the lower portion of the slightly elongate style, 10-13 mm. long in fruit   July-Aug. Alpine slopes.

Hokkaido, Hon­shu (n. and centr. distr.), Shikoku (Mount Ishizuchi). Kuriles. The typical phase occurs from the Aleutians and Kamchatka to northern N. America.