Japan Flora: Erect prominently hispid annual; stems branched, 25-50 cm. long; leaves rather thin, ovate or narrowly so, sometimes ovate-oblong, 4-8 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, acuminate with an obtuse tip, usually broadly cuneate, obtusely to acutely toothed, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; cymes dense, few, subsessile, the bracteoles linear, spinelikc, nearly as long as the calyx or calyx-tube; calyx 7-8 mm. long, long- hispid, loosely glandular-pilose on lower half, the teeth nearly as long as the tube, obliquely spreading, prominently spine­tipped; corolla about 10 mm. long, ratlier slender; nutlets about 2.5 mm. long, smooth, obovate-orbicular. July-Aug. 

Hokkaido, Honshu (Nikko, Kamikochi in Shinano). Sa­khalin, Kuriles, Korea, Siberia, and Europe.