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

General:
Perennial herb from a taproot with a stem-base clothed with brown decaying leaf bases; stems curved to erect, simple, bowed, spreading stiff-hairy, 6-12 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves 2-5 cm long, the stalks half the leaf length or more, deeply dissected into elongate or egg-shaped segments, with 2 pairs of primary lateral lobes, smooth or sparsely stiff-hairy, blue-green; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of solitary flowers on brown bristly-hairy stalks, buds nodding, 8-12 mm long; petals 4, salmon-pink to orange-yellow, sometimes with a basal yellow spot, 8-10 mm long.

Fruits:
Capsules, conical or narrowly egg-shaped, 10-13 mm long, 1-2.5 times longer than wide, bristly-hairy, the hairs ivory-coloured.