Rootstock perennial, fusiform, bearing at the summit a number of herbaceous or somewhat woody, erect or spreading, scantily pilose branches, 4–6 in. in length. Leaves on very short stalks, rough on the upper surface, bristly beneath, polymorphous, lower ones roundish, upper ones palmately 3–5-parted; segments oblong-lanceolate, irregularly serrate. Stipules liguliform, persistent. Peduncles solitary, axillary, often as long as the nearly sessile floral leaves. Epicalyx of 8–10 distinct, liguliform, ciliolate segments. Calyx campanulate, 5-parted, its 5 lobes oblong-lanceolate or acuminate, exceeding the epicalyx. Corolla yellow, 1 1/2–2 in. diam., twice the size of the epicalyx. Capsule oblong-ovoid, slightly pointed, its 5 valves downy and hispid along their edges. Seeds smooth.
