Japan Flora: Caudex stout, short, rhizomelike, with a tuft of rosulate leaves at apex; inflores- cence branches lateral, decumbent; radical leaves ovate to nar­rowly so, rarely elliptic, 8-18 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse, rarely rounded at apex, narrowed at base, entire, the petioles 2- 3 mm. wide, the cauline leaves obtuse, 1-2 cm. wide, clasp­ing at base; flowering branches 10-40 cm. long; heads many, yellow, about 1.5 cm. across; involucres 8-9 mm. long. Oct.-Jan. Rocky places near the sea.

Honshu (w. distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea, Ryukyus, and Formosa       

f. pinnatilobum (Maxim.) Nakai Leaves pinnately lobed. Occurs with the typical phase.