Japan Flora: Stems 1.5-2 m. long, glabrous, leafy throughout; lower cauline leaves large, elliptic or elliptic- lanceolate, 30-50 cm. long, acute, narrowed at base, glabrous above, thinly silky beneath, clasping, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes about 5 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, the spines 2-3 nun. long; heads small, pendulous at anthesis, many, on long peduncles, bractlcss; involucres campanulate, cobwebby, viscid, about 1.6 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide; bracts 7- or 8-seriate, the outer short, oblong or ovate, obtuse, short spine-tipped, the median nar­rowly oblong, appressed; corollas purplish, 16-17 mm. long.  Aug.-Oct. Mountains.

Honshu.