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Widespread, however this seemed to be the only one flowering on location.

Basal in rosettes, palmately compound. Leaflets #3. Lower surface finely hairy. Obovate shaped, with toothed margins.

Inflorescence: corollas white, here one sees #4 petals but it very clear one is missing (there should be 5). Round shaped.

If someone can make sense of this I would be thankful: Do leafs' stalks and flower shoots have long spreading (var. platypetala) or appressed hairs (var. glauca)? I find they are more appressed distally and more spreading basally?
I feel somewhat inclined to var. platypetala since petals seem to be almost round.

One of 5 or more weed species growing on an old horse dung pile on Kellys Plain, a subalpine plain at 1260m elevation. The 3rd photo shows the collection of weeds (and a couple of natives) on the old decomposed dung, the 4th shows a newer aggregation of dung adjacent to the older pile. The larger foreground pile will eventually become weed infested too, illustrating how the presence of feral horses contributes to the increasing prevalence of weeds in the high country of Kosciuszko NP.