Japan Flora: Perennial more or less pubescent or pilose herb with short stout rhi­zomes; stems 5-30 cm. long, often ascending at base, with coarse long hairs; leaflets of the radical leaves 5-7 (rarely 3-9), the lower pairs gradually smaller, the upper 3 nearly equal, larger, broadly ovate to elliptic, 1.5-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, obtuse to subrounded, the teeth broadly ovate or rather del­toid; stipules membranous, coarsely pilose outside, the seg­ments broadly lanceolate, acute, green and ovate with few teeth in the cauline ones; flowers few to many, rather large, 15-20 mm. across; calyx-segments narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, subacute, 4-8 mm. long, the bracts of caliculus equal or slightly smaller; petals 1.5-2 times as long as the calyx-seg­ments; receptacle hairy; achenes ovoid, finely rugulosc, I-I.2 mm. long, glabrous; styles rather stout, 1-1.5 mm. long. Mar.-Aug. Sunny slopes and waste grounds in lowlands and on mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; very variable. e. Asia.