Montana Field Guide

Perennial with short rhizomes and bulblets among leaf bases. Stems solitary, scapose, erect, 10–30 cm, hairy and glandular above. Leaves basal and lower cauline; the petiole long and sparsely long-hairy; the blade sparsely hairy, orbicular, 2–8 cm wide, shallowly lobed, each lobe 3 times crenate. Inflorescence glandular, open-paniculate, some flowers replaced by plantlets. Flowers: calyx saucer-shaped with reflexed lobes 2–3 mm long; hypanthium absent; petals white, elliptic, 3–4 mm long; ovary superior. Capsule 4–7 mm long (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Wet cliffs, along small streams; subalpine, alpine (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).