herb up to 1 1/2 ft. high; rootstock stout, perennial; stems leafy, sparingly branched, sparingly hirsute with spreading hairs; leaves distinctly petioled, firm, spuriously palmately to distinctly pinnately 3–7-lobed, base wide-cuneate, lobes more or less runcinately lobulate, obtuse, margin denticulate, the teeth triangular and each with a short glandular apical seta, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 2–3 in. across, lobes 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 1/3– 3/4 in. wide, more or less pilose on the nerves especially beneath, nerves underneath prominent; petiole 3/4–1 in. long; stipules dissected, lobules glanduliferous, 1/2 in. long; cymes rather lax, usually many-flowered, considerably overtopping the leaves; peduncles 1–1 1/2 in. long, softly pubescent; primary branches 1/2– 3/4 in. long, softly pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1/4 in. long or less, margin glandular-ciliate; male sepals narrow lanceolate, margins glandular-ciliate, 1/5 in. long; petals spathulate-lanceolate, glabrous, 1/5 in. long; disc-glands free; stamens 8, 2-seriate, shortly monadelphous; female sepals like the male but 1/5 in. long; petals like the male but 1/4 in. long; hypogynous glands free; ovary densely hirsute; styles 3, 2-lobed at the apex; capsule oblong, slightly 3-dymous, 1/2 in. long, 1/3 in. wide, pubescent; seeds narrow-oblong, 1/3 in. long, 1/6 in. wide. null
