Japan Flora: Stems 70-100 cm. long, puberulent; lower cauline leaves char­taceous, cordate to cordate-deltoid, 8-15 cm. long, cuspidate, cordate to truncate at base, toothed, puberulent on both sides, the petioles sometimes winged, decurrent, the upper leaves gradually becoming smaller, ovate or oblong, acute, rounded at base, entire, sessile; heads in racemes or rarely sub- corymbose; involucres campanulate, about 17 mm. long, 12-15 mm. wide, densely silky-woolly; bracts 9-seriate, imbricate, the outer short, broadly ovate, obtuse, mucronate, much shorter than the inner, the median oblong, obtuse, the inner linear, acute, membranous; corollas purplish, about 13 mm. long. Sept-Oct. Grassy places in mountains;

Honshu. Korea.