Japan Flora: Rhizomes stout, woody; stems erect, usually 1-2 m. long, stout, simple or branched, hairy or glabrous, cobwebby in upper part; lower and median cauline leaves rather thin, elliptic to narrowly so, 17-35 cm. long, acute to acuminate, narrowed at base, sessile or short-petiolate, decurrent, spinu- Iose, entire or pinnately cleft, the lobes usually of few pairs, nearly glabrous above, crisped-pubescent, cobwebby-hairy be­neath while young; heads many, nodding in anthesis; in­volucres globose-campanulate, cobwebby, 17-20 mm. long, about 4 cm. wide; bracts about 7-seriatc, the outer and median linear-lanceolate, spreading; corolla 15-17 mm. long, purplish. July-Sept.

Hokkaido. Sakhalin, Kuriles, Kamchatka, and Aleutians.