Japan Flora: Stems long-creeping, rooting at the nodes, coarsely hirsute; flowering branches ascending, leafy, densely strigose; cauline leaves thick-coriaceous, oblong, sometimes ovate or lanceolate, 1.5-4.5 cm. long, 4-14 mm. wide, usually obtuse, rarely acute, cuneate at base, loosely toothed, 3-nerved, coarsely strigose, sbort-petiolate; heads 16-22 mm. long, usu­ally solitary, terminal; involucres subglobose, the bracts ovate,  2-3.5 mm. wide, coarsely strigose; ligulate florets 1-seriate, the corollas yellow, 8-11 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide; achenes 3.5-4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, densely strigose, 3- or 4-angled. July-Oct. Near seashores.

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Ryukyus, Formosa, Bonins, China, and Indochina.