Japan Flora: Perennial with sparse coarse hairs; stems 15-40 cm. long, simple, few-leaved at base; radical leaves few, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-spathulate, 8-13 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, obtuse, ir­regularly toothed, the lower cauline leaves similar to the radi­cal, the upper oblong, sessile, rather small, clasping; heads soli­tary, about 5 mm. across, yellow; involucral bracts many, black­ish, the outer ovate-oblong, elongate-linear, about 7 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, with coarse black and short white-woolly hairs, the innermost membranes, 2.2 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; achenes linear-lanceolate, 1-1.3 cm. long, beaked, rugose; pap­pus sordid-white, plumose, the bristles about 1 cm. long. July. Alpine regions

Hokkaido (Mount Apoi).