Often prostrate, but height can be up to 30 cm at times. Leaves green above, often grey hairy beneath, the margins sometimes rolled under. Flowers golden yellow, 12 to 20 mm with five petals.

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Dry grazed meadows and short grassland, banks and rocky places.

Flowers June to September.

Evergreen subshrub.

Fairly frequent and widespread over much of Britain.

Uncommon and local in Leicestershire and Rutland, only on the calcareous soils in the east of the Vice-county. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 3 of the 617 tetrads, and in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971) in 20 tetrads.

It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) because of its threat-level