Perennial herb with basal rosette of shortly petiolate, fugacious leaves, often developing long, slender, densely hairy stolons usually rooting here and there at nodes. Leaves 1–1·5(3·5) x 1·5–3(4·5) cm., circular-reniform in outline, those of rosette 5(7)-lobed, the rest 5-lobed, usually glabrous or subglabrous above and ± densely long-hairy beneath especially on main veins; lobes shallow, usually not deeper than i of the radius of lamina, ± semicircular to broadly obovate; central lobe usually with 15 teeth c. 1 mm. long; petioles of stem leaves slender, up to 5 cm. long, hairy like the stems. Flowers axillary, usually solitary or twinned, subsessile or on pedicels up to 8 mm. long, concealed by the stipules, or less often borne in ± elongated cymes or panicles usually not exceeding the subtending leaf. Calyx glabrous or rarely covered with long hairs; epicalyx-lobes c. 1 mm. long, exceeding calyx-lobes; calyx-lobes c. 0·7 mm. long. Achenes (2)4–8, up to 1·5 mm. long.