Perennial herb, with thick rhizomes; leaves basal, green (not variegated) glandular-puberulent along margins & abaxial veins, mostly glabrous adaxially, broadly ovate to orbicular, cordate at base, shallowly palmately lobed, lobes rounded, petioles longer than the blades, minutely glandular-puberulent and with sparse, long (2-6 mm), multicellular, glandular trichomes; inflorescence an ebracteate raceme, axis glandular puberulent and often with some longer glandular trichomes; at anthesis, hypanthium (tube of united sepals and petals) shallow, saucer-shaped, green; calyx with five widely spreading sepals, green, glandular-puberulent; petals spatulate, white, spreading, longer than the sepals or, occasionally, equaling them; stamens 5, not exceeding the hypanthium, curved inwards; stigmas 2. Flowers June to September.