Short rigid perennial, 7-10 cm tall, glabrous, glaucous, with thickened rootstock, and scapes not exceeding the radical leaves. Leaves narrow, elongated, bipinnatisect, with usually 5 distant and similar pinnae and petiole about as long as the lamina; pinnae ± 3 lobed with each lobe deeply ± 3 lobuled (ultimate segments); lobules minute, ovate-oblong, obtuse, sometimes further dissected., 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad. Scapes naked below (leafless), 5-10 flowered, with flowers often turned towards one side; bracts small, linear-lanceolate, entire. Flowers (12-) 15-20 mm long, yellow with small, sac-like or subglobose spur, c. 2.5 mm long; outer petals apex broad, winged. Capsule c. 15 mm long, 5 mm broad, elliptic, acute; seeds c. 3 mm in diam.