Japan Flora: Perennial herb; flowering stems erect, 20-40 cm. long, naked or 1-leaved; radical leaves rather few, spathulate, 7-15 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, acute to acuminate, narrowed to a rather broad petiole­like base, sparsely mucronate-tootlied or incised; cauline leaves clasping but scarcely auriculate; heads rather many, white to purplish, about 20-flowered, 2-25 cm. across; involucres 9-11 mm. long, the outer bracts nearly equal, the inner about 8; achenes narrowly lanceolate, about 6 mm. long inclusive of the beak slightly shorter than the body; pappus white, about 6 mm. long. Apr-June.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea. China and e. Siberia.