Japan Flora: Stems 50-90 cm. long, crispcd-pubescent and cob­webby-hairy； radical leaves rosulate, narrowly to broadly ob­long, 20-35 cm. long, pinnately cleft to parted, the lobes 8-9 pairs, spreading, often 3-Iobulatc, spinulose, glabrous on both sides; cauline leaves many, gradually smaller, oblong, acumi­nate, broadly clasping, pinnatifid, loosely pubescent to glabrous on upper side; heads nodding at anthesis, often bracteate; in­volucres depressed-globose, about 2 cm. long, about 3.5 cm. wide, loosely cobwebby; bracts about 5-scriatc, viscid on the midrib, blackish, the outermost lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, about 1/5 as long as the inner, acuminate, very short spine­tipped; corollas purplish, about 20 mm. long.  May-June. Wet places in lowlands.

Honshu (Chugoku Di str.).