Perennial herbs, spreading, villous, stolons 25-90 cm long. Leaves trifoliolate, hairy on both surfaces, sometimes adaxially glabrous, leaflets obovate to rhombic-oblong, 1-4 x 0.7-2 cm, lateral leaflets slightly smaller than terminal, margins coarsely serrate. Petioles and pedicels spreading hairy. Stipules lanceolate 3-9 mm. Flowers 1.2-2 cm in diam., on pedicels up to 10 cm long. Sepals ovate with acute apex, hairy. Epicalyx segments obovate, hairy, broader than sepals, as long as or sometimes longer than sepals, apex 3-5 lobed. Petals oblong to obovate, as long as to slightly longer than sepals, yellow. Stamens 20-25. Stylodia lateral, narrow-cylindrical. Carpels free, numerous. Fruit multiple, drupetum, fleshy, red, 0.7-1.5 cm in diameter. Achenes red, prominent, shining, ovoid, c. 1.5 mm, glabrous, not rugose, but pitted.

Fl. Per.: March– October.

Lectotype: Plate of Andrews drawn from cultivated plant in botanical garden, Calcutta. No specimen preserved.

Distribution: Pakistan (Chitral, Dir, N. Punjab), Kashmir, Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, naturalized in Africa, Europe and North America.