Plant: Perennial; stem ascending to erect, 2-8 dm, glabrous to sparsely hairy, glandular above Leaves: lower 5-30 cm; blades 5-15 cm wide, divided into ± 5 broadly wedge- to diamond-shaped segments, upper 3/4 of segments lobed INFLORESCENCE: cyme; flowers (1)2 Flowers: bisexual; pedicels 1-2 cm; sepals 6-12 mm, awned; petals 10-18 mm, rounded, white to lavender, generally purple-veined, basal half soft-hairy; stamens 10, outer 5 opposite petals, inner 5 alternate petals Fruit: Fruit: body 3-4 mm, sparsely hairy, dehiscent, generally ovoid, 1-2-seeded, base rounded; style column 20-25 mm, narrowed at top below free stigmas, forming a beak in fruit, beak 2-3 mm; Seed 1-2, coarsely pitted Misc: Moist sites, meadows, coniferous forest; 1200-2700 m.