Description
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Herbs perennial. Rhizome robust, terete, much branced, with many lateral roots. Flowering stems erect, 12–15 cm tall, densely appressed white sericeous. Radical leaves 3–7 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white sericeous or subglabrous; petiole appressed sericeous; leaf blade palmately 5-foliolate; 2 lateral leaflets sessile, lanceolate, margin entire or 1–3-serrate; 3 central leaflets oblong-lanceolate, larger than lateral 2, both surfaces densely white sericeous-villous and shining, base cuneate, distal margin irregularly 1–4-serrate on each side, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaf 1, reduced and bractlike; stipules ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially densely white sericeous. Flowers 2 or 3, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acuminate; epicalyx segments lanceolate, nearly equaling sepals, abaxially densely white sericeous, apex acuminate. Petals white, obcordate. Stamens ca. 5. Style subterminal; stigma not dilated. Achenes not seen. Fl. Jul.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Habitat
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Rock crevices; ca. 3000 m.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA