Japan Flora: Small branching shrub; leaflets elliptic to narrowly oblong, obtuse to acute, 1-2 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, long-pubescent on both sides at least while young, the uppermost lateral ones decurrent at base; flowers yellow, 2-2.5 cm. across, on white-hairy pedicels; calyx-segments ovate, 5-7 mm. long, with nerves raised in fruit; petals obovate; achenes ovoid, lustrous, loosely pubescent with long hairs. June-Aug. Alpine regions; Hokkaido, Honshu (n. and centr. distr.). Northern and alpine regions of the N. Hemisphere.