Japan Flora: Steins prostrate or long-decumbent, ascending, 30-80 cm. long, with scattered, retrorse, appressed hairs; cauline leaves rather thin, pedolate, 5-angled, orbicular, 4-7 cm. wide, cordate at base, 5-lobed to below the middle, the lobes narrowly rhombic, acute, 3-fid, irregularly incised and few-toothed, appressed- pilose on upper side, ascending-pilose beneath especially on nerves; stipules free, narrow； flowers solitary, rarely paired, pale rose to white, about 8 mm. across; sepals short-pilose; free portion of styles about 1 mm. long.    July-Sept. Grassy places in lowlands.

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.). A vari­able plant occurring widely in Korea, China, Sakhalin, Kuriles, and Siberia.