Japan Flora: Stems rather slender, much elongate below ground, remotely leafy; leaves rather thick, long-pctiolate, 3- to 5-anglcd, cordate, palmately 3-     to 5-cleft, -parted, or -divided, 3-5 cm. long and as wide, the segments broadly elliptic, rounded at apex, 2- to 3-lobed and obsoletcly toothed; scapes axillary from radical leaves, 3-15 cm. long, 2- to 5-hcaded, the lowest bracts sometimes subfoliaceous; heads about 3 cm. across, rather many-flowered; involucres 11- 14 mm. long, the outer involucral bracts rather prominent, about 2/5-1/2 as long as the inner, the inner bracts 6-8; achenes about 5 mm. long; pappus white, 5-6 mm. long.  May-July. Sandy beaches.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu­shu; common.  Formosa, Ryukyus, China, Korea, Man­churia, and Kamchatka.