Japan Flora: Caudex stout, short, erect, rhizomelike, with a tuft of ros ulate leaves at apex; inflorescence branches axillary, decumbent; scapes 20-40 cm. long; radica] leaves rather thick, obovate or obovate-elliptic, 8-18 cm. long, 4.5-7 cm. wide, rounded at apex, narrowed at base, entire, the peti­oles 5-7 mm. wide; cauline leaves broadly obovate-elliptic, 2-4 cm. wide, usually rounded to subacute, the uppermost subtending the inflorescence, clasping; heads many, very congested, yellow, about 1 cm. across; involucres 6-7 mm. long. Sept.-Nov. Seashores.

Honshu (s. Kanto and Tdkaido Distr.). s. Korea.