Japan Flora: Stems 50-100 cm. long, branched, cobwebby; radi­cal leaves rosulate, lanceolate-elliptic, 25-50 cm. long, 12-20 cm, wide, usually obtuse, narrowed below to a winged petiole, pinnately cleft, the lobes about 5 pairs, oblong, coarsely toothed, short-spinulose, deep 양"een and slightly scaberulous above, glabrous beneath; cauline leaves gradually smaller, ob­long-lanceolate, slightly clasping or not at dl, pinnatifid to toothed, the spines short; heads solitary on the branches, nod­ding, subtended by 2-4 lanceolate, spinulose-toothed bracteal leaves; involucres depressed-globose, 2-2.2 cm. long, 3.5-45 cm. wide, cobwebby; bracts about 6-seriate, the outer nar­rowly linear, acuminate, 0.5-1 mm. wide, about half as long as the inner, the inner and median obliquely spreading, spine­tipped, mealy dotted, the inner recurved; corollas purplish, 21- 22 mm. long. Oct-Nov. Woods along rivers.

Honshu (Chugoku Distr.)