Stems erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. Roots slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. Basal leaves persistent, blades reniform or semicircular, undivided or some 3-parted, 1.4-2.1 × 1.7-2.8 cm, base cordate or truncate, margins crenate with more than 5 crenae, apex rounded. Flowers: pedicels pilose, sometimes sparsely so; receptacle hispid; sepals 4-6 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 4-5 × 2-4 mm; nectary scale glabrous. Heads of achenes ovoid to cylindric, 4-7 × 4-6 mm; achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lance-subulate, curved, 0.4-0.6 mm. 2n = 32.

Phenology: Flowering summer (Jul–Aug).
Habitat: Wet alpine meadows, often around late snowbeds, shores of lakes and streams
Elevation: 700-1300 m

Distribution

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Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.), Nunavut, Que.

Discussion

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