Japan Flora: Small perennial herb, 4-10 cm. high; stems simple, densely white-cobwebby; radical and lower cauline leaves coriaceous, persistent at anthesis, spreading, petiolate, ovate to broadly so, 3-8.5 cm. long, cordate to truncate at base, mucronate-toothed, cobwebby above while young, densely white-woolly beneath; median and upper leaves few, truncate to cuneate at base; heads in corymbs, in groups of 5^11; involucres campanulate, 12-14 mm. long, 10-12 mm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 5-seriate, the outer ovate, about half as long as the inner, mucronate, the inner linear, acuminate; receptades naked; corollas pur­plish, 11-12 mm. long; achenes 55-6.5 mm. long. Aug. Alpine.

Hokkaido (Mount Yubari).