Leaves: Nearly hairless or sparsely hairy on the stalk and underside, blackening when dried. Blades divided into three stalked segments, themselves palmately divided into oval-lanceolate, more or less pointed lobes. Stem leaves absent or reduced to two narrow lobes near the middle of the stem.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers slightly more than 1 cm across; sepals spreading or appressed and lightly hairy.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit: Achenes sometimes swollen, without tubercles on the disc, with a narrow, indistinct margin and a very short, backward-curved beak.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: Margins of melting snow patches in the high mountains, above 2,000 m.
Phenology: May–August, sometimes later at higher elevations.
الانتشار الموثق
Lebanese distribution: Sannine, above Tannourine, Ehden and Hasroun, Cedars Pass, Foumm el Mizhab, Makmel, Qornet es Saouda and Mount Hermon.
Recorded locations: Sannine, Tannourine and Bekish.
Native range: Albania, Lebanon-Syria, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Spain and Türkiye.
الارتفاع الموثق
الارتفاع
2,000 m
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit: Dwarf perennial with an oblique rhizome, thick roots and fibrous sheaths around the crown. Stems prostrate or ascending, 5–15 cm long, simple or sparingly branched, hairless except for slight hairiness near the flowers.