Herbs perennial. Flowering stems many, tufted, spreading or ascending, 6–10(–18) cm tall, slightly hard, together with leaves and petioles glandular hairy and pilose. Radical leaves in a dense rosette, not withering in fruit; stipules entire at margin; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm; leaf blade 1–3 cm, 3 times 3-parted; segments entire or 2- or 3-sect into entire or 2- or 3-fid segments; ultimate lobes spatulate, 1–2 mm, apex rounded; cauline leaves few or absent, resembling radical ones but 3-parted with segments entire or 2- or 3-fid. Inflorescence terminal, compressed at anthesis, later becoming lax, paniculate-corymbiform, many flowered; bracts and bracteoles linear, 1–2 mm, margin entire. Flowers 3–5 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate or pyriform, 2–4.5 mm, pilose. Sepals erect, triangular-ovate, equaling or slightly longer than hypanthium, apex acute. Petals white or pink, lanceolate-spatulate or cuneate, 2–3 mm, shorter than or equaling sepals, apex rounded. Filaments glabrous, shorter than petals. Carpels (5 or)6–8(–10), free. Achenes brown, shining, ovoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.

Sands and gravels on river banks. Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Xizang [Mongolia, Russia].