Distribution: Occurring in the Olympics and Cascades mountains in Washington; Alaska to Oregon, east to Alberta, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.

Habitat: Alpine.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies, beetles

Perennial with slender, fibrous roots; stems several, slender, ascending to erect, not nodally rooting, 1- or 2-flowered, scape-like, 3-9 cm. tall.

Basal leaves petiolate, the blades glabrous, 1-2 cm. long, cordate or reniform to ovate and rounded at the base, from 3-lobed to deeply dissected into 7-13 oblong segments.

Pedicles up to 6 cm. long; sepals 5, spreading to reflexed, 2.5-4.5 mm. long, yellowish-green but purplish tinged; petals 5, yellow, 3.5-5 mm. long, short-clawed; nectary scale 0.5 mm. long, the lateral margins forming a pocket, the tip truncate; receptacle ovoid-cylindric, up to 7 mm. long; stamens 20-50; pistils 30-80; stylar beak 0.5 mm. long, recurved.

Achenes 2-2.5 mm. long, obliquely ovate.