Japan Flora: Perennial herb with slender, creeping, branched, leafy stems; leaves oblanceolate to spathulatc-clliptic，6-20 cm. long inclusive of the petioles, 1.5-3 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded, entire or loosely toothed on the lower half, Iong- pctiolate; scapes 10-30 cm. long, sometimes with a single leaf; heads 1-5, 2.5-3 cm. across, rather many-flowered, pedicel led, yellow; involucres 12-14 mm. long, the inner bracts about 8; achenes about 4 mm. long, narrowly fusiform, deeply sulcate, acutely winged, the beak about 2.5 mm. long; pappus white, about 7 mm. long. May.  Cultivated fields and waste grounds in lowlands.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus and Korea.