Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 15–40 cm tall, together with petioles white tomentose and sparsely villous. Radical leaves 2–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white pilose and pubescent; leaf blade palmately 5-foliolate; leaflets adaxially green, oblong-obovate, 1–3 × 0.5–1 cm, abaxially densely white tomentose, adaxially appressed pilose, base cuneate, margin revolute, proximally entire, distally irregularly 2–5-serrate on each side; cauline leaves many, resembling radical ones but petioles becoming shorter higher up stem, uppermost leaves sessile; stipules green, ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially densely white tomentose, apex acuminate, entire or 2- or 3-dentate. Inflorescence corymbose-cymose or paniculate-cymose, laxly many flowered. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm, tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acute to acuminate; epicalyx segments oblong-lanceolate, shorter than sepals, abaxially canescent tomentose and villous, apex acute. Petals yellow, obovate, slightly longer than sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened and papillate; stigma dilated. Achenes smooth or slightly rugose. Fl. and fr. May–Aug.

Sunny mountain slopes, gravel fields; ca. 1100 m. Xinjiang [Mongolia, Russia (Siberia); C Asia, Europe].