Japan Flora: Stems 1-1.5 m. long, nearly glabrous; leaves and leaflets petiolate, the leaflets 3-5, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 3-13 cm. long, coarsely toothed; heads ligulate; involucral bracts foliaceous, the inner bracts and chaff 5-9 mm. long; ligulate corollas short, yellow; tubular corollas 4-toothed; achenes cuneate, the outer ones 5-7 mm. long, the inner ones 7-10 mm. long, the awns 2.5-5 mm. long. Sept.-Oct.
North American weed widely naturalized in lowlands in our area.