Japan Flora: Stems 25-90 cm. long, branched, short- pilose or glabrate; leaves lanceolate, 8-17 cm. long, acuminate at both ends, mucronate-toothed, minutely scabrous on both surfaces; upper leaves slightly dilated, clasping at base; heads ligulate; involucral bracts 5-7, herbaceous, lanceolate, about 2 cm. long; ligulate corollas 12 mm. long, about 5 mm. wide, yellow; tubular corollas 5-toothed; achenes narrowly cuneate, 4-anglcd, retrorsely spinulose on the angles, the awns 4, 2 or 3 mm. long. Sept. Wet places.

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.). Korea, China, and widely distributed in the N. Hemisphere.