Japan Flora: Coarse perennial herb; stems 30-70 cm. long, rather stout, scabrous, brownish red; leaves thick, broadly ovate, obovate- orbicular or ovate-orbicular, 6-15 cm. long, 4-10 cm. wide, short-acuminate, acute to cuneate at base, often shallowly 2- to 3-lobed toward the apex, rather minutely toothed, often unequal, prominently bullate and scabrous above, impressed and short-pilose on nerves and vein lets beneath; glamerules of pistillate flowers contiguous, forming a rather short thick spike in fruit, the perianth with short ascending hairs; achenes narrowly cuneate, about 1.5 mm. long. Aug.-Oct. Waste ground and rocky cliffs near seashores;

Hokkaido (s. distr.), Honshu.