Japan Flora: Stems 1-1.5 m. long, densely leafy, cobwebby, branched; radical leaves thin, elliptic, 55-60 cm. long, 20-30 cm. wide, narrowed at base to a winged petiole, lustrous and nearly glabrous above, yellow-green, loosely cobwebby and short-hairy on nerves beneath, pinnately cleft, the lobes 4-7 pairs, oblong, coarsely toothed, the spines thick, 5-6 mm. long; upper leaves gradually smaller, lanceolate, pinnatifid or coarsely toothed, acute, partially clasping at base, nearly glabrous on both sides; heads solitary, nodding, bracteal leaves at base few or absent; involucres depressed-globose, cobwebby, about 1.8 cm. long, 3.5 cm. wide; bracts rather thin, flat, 6- or 7-seriate, obliquely spreading at the tip, entire, spine-tipped, the outer linear-lance­olate, the median ovate-lanceolate; corollas pink, 19-20 mm. long.  Sept.-Oct. Along rivers.

Kyushu.