stems and petioles velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower; stipules setaceous; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx segments oblong-ovate, acuminate; carpels 9–10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. The whole plant is softly velvetty; the younger stems and branches are also clothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1–2 feet high. Flowers yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate.