Plants upright to spreading, 22-40 cm. Leaves: petioles 9-25(-30) mm; lobes of mid and distal leaves elliptic to ovate, to 1 × 1 cm. 2n = 68-72.

Flowering spring-fall. Crevices igneous bluffs and boulders especially canyon walls; of conservation concern; 500-1300 m; Ariz.

Proximal leaves of vars. gilensis and salensis may appear similar; lobes of the mid and distal leaves are elliptic to ovate in var. gilensis and linear to long-spatulate in var. salensis.