Herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Bathhouse of the Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). The root consists of numerous cord-shaped lobes. The stem is smooth, erect, single, simple or branched 10-80 cm tall.
The basal leaves are on long petioles, their plates are pentagonal in outline, dissected to the base into 5 rhombic segments, deeply incised into unequally serrated lobes. The stem leaves are 1-5 in number, the lower petioles, the upper sessile, with plates similar to the basal ones, but smaller upwards.
The flowers are large, up to 5 cm in diameter. Sepals are orange-red, including 10-20, broadly elliptical or obovate. The petals are 2-3 times longer than the stamens and equal to the sepals, orange-red, gradually expanded from the base upwards and pointed at the tip.
Blooms in the second half of May ― in June. The flower is pollinated by small beetles, flies, bees flying in for nectar.
The fruit of numerous leaflets is 10-11 mm long, with a short (0.5—1 mm) spout, bent inward at the base. The seeds ripen in late June - early July.
It grows in damp meadows, forest clearings, in forests, enters the highlands, rising to the alpine belt, and in the north penetrates into the tundra.