Herbs perennial. Roots terete. Flowering stems erect or basally slightly curved, 15–20 cm tall, together with petioles densely silvery tomentose and villous. Radical leaves 5–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially appressed white sericeous, later glabrescent; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets sessile or terminal one very shortly petiolulate, obovate, elliptic, or broadly ovate, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 cm, abaxially densely silvery tomentose, appressed silvery sericeous on veins, adaxially appressed silvery sericeous, base cuneate or broadly so, margin sharply incised serrate, apex obtuse; cauline leaves 2 or 3, shortly petiolate, small; stipules green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially tomentose and villous, margin entire, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, 2- or 3-flowered. Flowers ca. 2 cm in diam.; pedicel 2–2.5 cm, tomentose and villous. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, apex acuminate; epicalyx segments elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, nearly equaling sepals, abaxially appressed white sericeous. Petals yellow, sometimes purple at base, obcordate, ca. 2 × as long as sepals, apex markedly emarginate. Stamens yellow or purple. Style subterminal, yellow or purple, ca. 2.5 × as long as ovary; stigma slightly dilated, capitate. Achenes not seen. Fl. May.

Forests, thickets, sandy river banks, ditch sides; 3700--4000 m. Xizang [Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim].