Japan Flora: Stems 60-80 cm. long, often branched; leaves broadly oblanceolate, 10-20 cm. long, pinnately parted, the terminal segments largest, deltoid, the lateral segments 7 or 8 pairs, rather narrow, green above, white-tomentose beneath; heads usually many, erect; involucres globose, 12-14 mm. long, the bracts 8-seriate, with a cristate appendage on back at tip, the outer short, ovate-deltoid, acute; corollas purplish. May-June. Waste grounds, roadsides and cultivated fieleds in lowlands.

Honshu, Kyushu; com­mon. Ryukyus, Formosa, China, Korea, Manchuria, India, and Australia