Small evergreen plant to about 20-30 cm tall. Basal leaves dark green, leathery, arching back (pedate); leaflets 7-9. Flowers mostly single, occasionally in groups of 2-3. Segments white with a greenish tinge at the base, aging purplish, mostly 5-8 cm wide; winter-spring. Carpels 5-8, fused at the base.

European Alps

Flowers white; floral bracts entire.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Ranunculaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.