Japan Flora: Stems 25-50 cm. long; lower and median cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, obtuse, entire to spinulose-toothed, narrowed at base, sessile, rounded at base in upper ones; heads few, long- pedunculate; involucres of the staminate heads about 18 mm. long, in the pistillate 23 mm. long, the bracts 8-seriate, short- acuminate and dark colored at the tip, the outer very short, oblong-lanceolate, the median lanceolate; corolla 17-20 mm. long in the staminate flowers, about 26 mm. long in the pistil- late, purplish. May-Aug.

Kyushu (Tsushima).  Korea, Manchuria, and n. China.