Perennial herb or shrub, up to 1 m tall; all parts puberulous to densely pubescent, usually also with long simple hairs. Leaves with 2–11 cm long petiole; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, some usually shallowly 3-lobed, up to 19 x 17 cm, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, with serrate or crenate margins. Flowers in 2–6-flowered axillary cymes or some solitary, sometimes merging into a terminal panicle; pedicels up to c. 2 cm long. Calyx 4–7 mm long. Petals 4–7 mm long, yellow. Mericarps 6–8, c. 6–8 x 3 mm, 2–3-seeded, with 2–3 mm long awn, pubescent and glandular, only tardily separating. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose.