General:
Perennial herb from a strong taproot and short spreading rhizomes; stems erect or decumbent, hollow, purple-tinged, glabrous or nearly so at the base, 50-150 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves round or heart-shaped, shallowly lobed, toothed, long-stalked; stem leaves alternate, stalks reduced upwards, palmately 5-lobed into oblong segments; stipules purple-tinged.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of numerous flowers in congested, compound, spike-like, terminal clusters on stalks 1-3 mm long; petals 5, deep pink, 1.5-2 cm long; calyces 9-15 mm long, 5-lobed, glabrous, fringed on the margins, bractlets lacking.

Fruits:
Carpels, 4 mm long, 5-10, nearly glabrous, the beaks about 1 mm long; seeds 1.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia