Japan Flora: Annual or biennial herb with long pilose hairs; stems 20-60 cm. long; leaves 5-foliolate in the radical ones, 3-foliolate in the cauline; stipules adnate to the petiole on lower half or only at the base; leaflets obovate to oblong, obtuse to acute, the teeth ovate to lanceolate; flowers many, densely arranged; calyx-segments narrowly ovate, acute; petals obovate, shorter than the calyx-segments; receptacles short-pilose; anthers broadly elliptic, small; achenes broadly ovoid, about 0.7 mm. long, rugulose, glabrous, keeled on back; styles rather stout, nearly as long as the achene. 

Hokkaido, Honshu (Shinano Prov.). Cold regions of the N. Hemisphere.