Plant annual, small 1-8 cm high, covered with woolly hairs, subtomentose rarely glabrescent. Leaves palmately 3-Bd, with narrow, linear, entire or 2-3-lobed segments. Peduncles as long as or shorter than leaves. Flowers solitary, 5-7 mm in diameter. Sepals and petals usually 5. Fruiting spike cylindrical. Achenes with a long narrow straight beak.