Authors: DC.
A small tuberous rooted plant to 10cm tall. Basal leaves long-stalked, trilobed, the segments oblong to wedge-shaped or rounded, deeply and bluntly lobed and toothed; stem leaves in a whorl well below the flowers, similar to the basal but unstalked. Flowers solitary or in twos and threes, 3-5cm across, globular, red or bronzy yellow, often becoming dull coppery red with five broad, overlapping petals. Achenes densely woolly. Dry stony and rocky habitats. Iran to southern U.S.S.R., Afghanistan and Kashmir. Formerly quite often seen in cultivation but now rare and only in specialist collections. Best in the bulb frame or alpine house.
