Japan Flora: Pubescent biennial; stems erect, often branched at base, 20-80 cm. long, naked or with 1-3 leaves; radical leaves tufted, oblanceolate, acute, narrowed to a petiolelike base, pinnately parted, loosely mucronate­toothed, the terminal segment largest, deltoid-ovate; heads 7-8 mm. across, many, in terminal corymbose panicles, yellow; involucres 5-6 nun. long, the inner bracts about 8, the outer much smaller, ovate; achenes about 1.8 mm. long, gradually narrowed at the tip, brown, with slender scabcrul에s ribs; pappus white, ab이it 3 mm. long, persistent    May-June. Waste grounds, cultivated fields, and roadsides; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; very common.

Ryukyus, For­mosa, China, India, Polynesia, and Australia.