Japan Flora: Rhizomes vertical or oblique; stems 5-20 cm. long, erect, rather stout, simple or rarely branched, with brown multicellular hairs and short white puberulencc; radical leaves pinnatifid or sinuately shallow-lobed to runcinate, 5-15 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute, acuminate, or obtuse, gradually narrowed to a narrowly winged petiole, slightly pubescent on both sides; cauline leaves few, sessile, semi­clasping; upper leaves linear and small; heads 1 or 2 on long peduncles, yellow; involucres 1-1.5 cm. long, with brown, of­ten glandular, long hairs; achenes black-brown, about 1 cm. long, 1 mm. across, gradually narrowed toward apex, about 20- ribbed, puberulent; pappus 7.5-8 mm. long, white. July-Aug. Alpine slopes.

Hokkaido. s. Kuriles and Sakhalin.