Japan Flora: Plant about 25 cm. high; leaves suberect, oblanceolate, lingulate, toothed or pinnately cleft to parted; scapes white woolly-pubescent on upper part; heads 2.5-3 cm. across; involucres rounded at base, the bracts not corniculate, the outer appressed, ovate or ovate-rounded, 1/3 as long as the inner, nearly glabrous on margin, the inner linear-lanceolate, glabrous. Alpine regions.
Honshu (Mount Yatsugatake in Shinano and in Akaishi Mt. range).