Japan Flora: Dwarf suffrutescent herb with short creeping branches densely covered with stipules and 2-6 cm. long persistent bases of the old petioles; leaflets 3, nearly similar, cuneate, truncate and with 3(-5) large teeth at apex, usually 1-1.5 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide; inflorescence rather densely about 10-flowered, the pedicels very short; calyx-segments narrowly ovate, 3.5-5 mm. long, acute; petals narrowly obovate; achenes ovoid, small, nearly smooth. July-Aug. Dry alpine slopes.

Honshu (centr. distr.); rare. n. Korea, Sakhalin, n. Kuriles to Europe and N. America.