Prostrate or ascending perennial herbs. Rootstock small, thick. Stem arising in tufts from the base, 10-30 cm. long, arcuate, slender, leafy, minutely tomentose. Leaves ternate, petioles 4-7 cm, pilose. Basal stipules pale-brown, membranous, cauline stipules ovate and green. Leaflets variable in size 0.5-1.5 cm. long and broad, broadly obovate-cuneate, obtusely crenate-dentate, adpressed pilose above and below, sparsely glandulose, sessile or subsessile. Flowers in loose corymbose cymes, small, 1-1.2 cm., diam. Calyces adpressed pilose, outer sepals obovate to suborbicular, blunt, inner ovate obtuse. Petals c. 5 mm. long, obovate and emarginate. Stamens about 20. Carpels numerous, styles short 0.5-0.7 mm., subterminal, coniform. Achenes smooth.
Fl. Per.: June-August
Type: Sermore, Wall. Catalogue no. 1025 (K-Wall.).
A-8 Gilgit, Gharesa Glacier, stable old moraines, 28.7.1937, M.A. Spencer without number (BM), Makerum, Hispar Glacier, R.Scott Russell 1413 (BM), B-7 Mansehra district, Shaddal, near Shinkiari 25.6.1896, J.F.Duthie (W), Kaghan Valley, Mount Makra, c. 4,000 m., in disturbed habitats, Muqarrab Shah & Jamshed 10 (ABD), Saiful-Maluk Sar, 3570 m, F.Schmid 298 (G), B-8 Kashmir, Tulin, Pahlgam c. 11,000 ft, R.R. Stewart 7929 (RAW), Lake Sorus above Pahlgam c. 12,000 ft, R.R. Stewart 21585 (K), Ningle Nullah (near Gulmarg), P.M. Pinfold 207 (K), Alampila c. 14,000 ft, J. F. Duthie 12175 (K), Pir Panjal c.10,000 ft, C. B. Clarke 28829 (K), above Kaimul (Lidder Valley) c.12,000 ft, J.F. Duthie 13124 (K), Shishnag 12-13,000 ft, J.F. Duthie 14146 (K).
Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim.
A high alpine perennial species, common in the cultivated fields and other disturbed habitats between 3,000 and 4,000 m.
