Japan Flora: Stems slender, cobwebby while young, the branches flat; radical leaves rosulate, long-petiolate, elon­gate-deltoid, rarely deltoid, 6-11 cm. long, acuminate, hastate to cordate or saggitate at base, mucronate-toothed, glabrous and pale green above, villous or white-tomentose beneath, the upper leaves gradually smaller, lanceolate to linear, short- petiolate or sessile; heads in loose corymbs, rarely solitary, the pedicels 5-30 mm. long; involucres tubular, 13-16 mm. long, 8-14 mm. wide, slightly cobwebby, purplish; bracts 8-11 seri­ate, 7-nerved on back, the outer ovate-lanceolate to ovate, mucronate-acute, the median oblong or oblong-lanceolate, the inner linearj corollas purplish, about 12 mm. long. Aug.-Ocl Mountains.

Honshu (w. Tokaido Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea.