Japan Flora: Much-branched annual or biennial herb 30-40 cm. high; leaves oblong-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 7-15 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, narrowed to a petiolelike base, subentire or loosely mucronate-toothed; heads about 1.2 cm. across, yellow, the florets 5 or 6; involucres 6 or 7 mm. across, the inner bracts about 5, dark green; achenes about 4 mm. long inclusive of the short beak, minutely scabrous; pappus about 4 mm. long. Oct.