E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Annual or sometimes biennial herb from a taproot; stems prostrate to erect, stiff-hairy and glandular-hairy, 10-50 cm long.

Leaves:
Basal leaves few, rounded in outline, long-stalked, 1.5-7 cm wide, palmately divided into 5-9 broad irregularly toothed and lobed segments; stem leaves few, similar, opposite, short-stalked.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of axillary clusters of usually 2 short-stalked flowers; petals purple, 2-4 mm long, notched; sepals about equal to the petals, callous-tipped; stamens fertile, 5, not fused basally.

Fruits:
Carpels, soft-hairy; styles 7-9 mm long, the beak less than 1 mm long or beakless; seeds glabrous.