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Perennial of the Ranunculaceae family, with a wide circumboreal distribution covering Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Siberia, and North America. In Europe, it frequents open dry grasslands, edges of clear pine forests, and well-exposed sandy or stony slopes, generally at low to medium altitudes.
It forms small clumps, reaching 10 to 20 cm at flowering. The foliage, which fully develops after flowering, is palmatisect with broad and few segments, a characteristic that distinctly sets it apart from other pasqueflowers with finely divided leaves. The stems and bracts are covered with a white, silky pubescence, particularly dense and visible on the still-closed buds.
The flowers, solitary, open widely and flat, with six spreading tepals of lilac violet to pinkish violet, sometimes more intense depending on the individual, surrounding a very abundant bright yellow center of stamens. It is one of the most open and flat-flowered pasqueflowers of the genus. In its natural habitat, its flowering extends from March to May. In cultivation, it generally blooms in March-April.
It requires well-drained, light, rather poor soil, in full sun.