[2] Its habitat includes moist areas in mountainous regions.

This tuftlike plant produces spreading, decumbent stems with leaves sometimes arranged in a rosette about the caudex.

The hairy stems reach a maximum length near 25 centimeters.

The rough-haired leaves are palmate, each divided into five wedge-shaped leaflets which are lined or tipped with teeth.

The inflorescence is a cyme of several flowers with yellow petals each a few millimeters long.