Japan Flora: Perennial herb, long appressed-strigose, with creeping rhizomes; stems 30-50 cm. long, rather fleshy, sometimes branched; leaves oblanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long, 7-30 mm. wide, obtuse, sessile; in­florescence corymbose, few-flowered, terminal or often appear­ing lateral, pedunculate; flowers white, short-pedicellate; calyx­segments lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long; corolla-tube slender, 6-7 mm. long, longer than the limb, densely appressed-pubescent, the limb shallowly 5-lobed, with a yellow center; fruit broadly ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, obtusely 4-angled, pubescent, depressed at apex, with a short style. May-Aug. Sand-dunes along the sea.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu­shu; rather common. Korea, s. Siberia, and w. Europe.