Japan Flora: Caudex stout, short, rhizomelike, with a tuft of rosulate leaves at apex; branches solitary to several, lateral, decumbent; radical leaves spathulate, 3-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, gradually rounded at tip, shallowly toothed; heads many, rather densely arranged, about 1.5 cm. across, yellow; involucres about 1 cm. long. Sept.-Dec. Rocky places near the sea.
Honshu (Izu Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.
f. pinnatilobum Hisauchi. Leaves pinnately lobed to cleft.