Acaulescent perennial herb from an elongate branching caudex; leaves with lanceolate stipules, petioles 4-8 cm long, glandular-puberulent and sparsely villous with white multicellular hairs to 5(-8) mm long, blades sub-reniform to broadly ovate, the base cordate, larger leaf blades 2.5-4 cm wide and 2-3.5 cm long, shallowly 5-lobed with about 25-30 broad teeth, surfaces glandular-puberulent, sparsely villous on the adaxial veins; flowering stems 8-20 cm high, usually with 1-3 sterile bracts resembling the basal leaves; inflorescences 3-4 cm long, one-sided or nearly so, flowers in small bracteate cymules; flowers apetalous, regular, 5.25-6 mm long at anthesis, hypanthium 1-1.5 mm long, widening gently from the inferior portion of the ovary, sepals 2.75-3.75 mm long, greenish-white to cream at anthesis, densely glandular-puberulent on both surfaces, stamens about 2 mm long, arising from the hypanthium slightly below the base of the sepals, gynoecium of 2 carpels, styles 2. Flowers June to September.