Japan Flora: Stems 50-150 cm. long, slender, often hairy, cobwebby in up­per portion, usually branched; radical leaves elliptic, caudate, abruptly narrowed at base, pinnately divided, the long winged petiole 30-45 cm. long, the segments 10 or 11 pairs, linear- lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, often deflexed, pecti­nate, glabrous on upper side, paler and pubescent on nerves beneath, the spines about 3 mm. long; cauline leaves elliptic to lanceolate, sessile or short-petiolate, decurrent, pectinate; heads pendulent on slender peduncles; involucres depressed-globose, about 1.6 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, slightly cobwebby; bracts 7- seriate, the outer and median linear-lanceolate, spreading; corollas purplish, 15-16 mm. long. July-Aug. Wet places in lowlands.

Hokkaido. Sakhalin and Kuriles.

var. alpinum Koick. Stems shorter, 25-27 cm. long; leaf-segments broader. Alpine; Hokkaido (centr. distr.).