Japan Flora: Roots thickened; leaves rather thick, oblanceolate or spathulate-ob- lanceolate, pinnately cleft to parted, the sinus reaching part­way to the midrib, the terminal segments usually obtuse; heads about 4 cm. across; outer involucral bracts appressed to slightly spreading, ovate or ovate-orbicular, small-comiculate, about half as long as the inner, the inner linear; achenes 4.5-5 mm. Jong, with spinelike tubercles. Alpine regions.

Hok­kaido (Ishikari Prov.). Kuriles, Kamchatka, Aleutians, and Alaska.