A creeping scrambling or erect herb without central rosettes of leaves, sometimes forming dense masses. Stems often slender, reddish to brownish-green, glabrous to densely pilose with ± ascending, pale brown or whitish hairs. Stipules bilobed, dentate, leafy in the upper part. Leaves petiolate, reniform to rounded-reniform, (3–)5-lobed, 1–1.5(–2.2) cm. long, 1.4–2.5 (–3.6) cm. broad, glabrous to thickly hairy, paler beneath; lobes shallow or extending sometimes to the base (the lateral lobes usually less deeply divided), obovate-cuneate, apically truncate to rounded, dentate (but sometimes extremely shallowly) in the upper part, with the central tooth sometimes vestigial and the basal sinus usually wide, sometimes as much as 180°; petiole 0.2–1.3(–4) cm. long. Inflorescence simple or much-branched, slender; pedicels glabrous, 0.75–1.5 mm. long; flowers 1–3 together. Calyx glabrous, the tube 1–1.25 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, rather obtuse, 1–1.2 mm. long; epicalyx-lobes 0.6–1.2 mm. long, rather variable in width, sometimes equalling the calyx-lobes or nearly so; disc sometimes with a few hairs, the whole flower otherwise glabrous and sometimes red-tinted. Achenes 1–3.
