Japan Flora: Glabrous perennial with creeping, loosely branched, slender stems and branches; leaves few, coriaceous, disposed mostly at end of stem, long- petiolate, orbicular to ovate-cordate, 3-6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, deep green and lustrous on upper side, short-toothed; scapes 10-30 cm. long, with few bud-scales at base; racemes one-sided, 3- to 10-flowercd, the bracts lanceolate or broadly linear, shorter than the calyx, the pedicels shorter than the flowers, erect after anthesis; calyx segments narrowly oblong, 5-10 mm. long, loosely ciliate near tip when young, very ob­tuse, 4- to 7-nerved, becoming coriaceous-chartaceous in fruit; corolla rose-colored, narrowly infundibuliform, 1-1.5 cm. across, white-hairy at base inside, the lobes ascending, laciniate; capsules globose, 3-4 mm. across, the style persistent, 7-10 mm. long. Apr.-June. Woods and thickets in mountains and sunny places in alpine regions.

Hokkaido (w. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu