Japan Flora: Perennial herb with short rhizomes densely leafy at apex; stems 20-40 cm. long, erect, ascending above, few-leaved and branched, slightly ascending-pubescent; radical leaves long-petioled; stipules tightly adnate to the petiole, the free portion narrowly deltoid, acute, the cauline leaves with the stipules shortly adnate, the free portion ovate, often den­tate, the leaflets 5 (or 1-3 on the upper cauline leaves), digitate, narrowly ovate to broadly oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 8-20 mm. wide, obtuse, nearly glabrous above, paler and with appressed-pilose nerves beneath; inflorescence rather many-flowered, the pedicels 5-20 mm. long, with white as­cending-pilose hairs; flowers about 8 mm. across; calyx-seg­ments ovate, subacute; bracts of caliculus narrower; stamens broadly ovate; receptacle short-pilose at base; achenes broadly ovoid, 0.6 mm. long, slightly longitudinally rugose; styles short, nearly as long as the achenes. May-June.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. Korea, China, India, and Malaysia.