Japan Flora: Short-pubescent perennial herb with stout short woody branching rhizomes; stems 10-20 cm. long, erect; radical leaves petioled; stipules lanceolate, acuminate; leaflets 3-5, subcoriaceous, the upper 3 larger, rhombic-ovate or elliptic, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, acute or sometimes obtuse, with coarse acute deltoid teeth, green above, glaucous beneath; inflorescence few- to rather many-flowered; flowers about 1 cm. across, yellow; calyx-seg­ments narrowly ovate, acuminate; bracts of caliculus lanceo­late; anthers broadly ovate; receptacle with dense white hairs about 2 mm. long; achenes ovoid, brown, smooth, with few long curled hairs longer than the body; styles filiform, about J.5 mm. long.  June-Aug. Rocks in mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.