Japan Flora: Plants 20-60 cm. high, papillose hairy above; leaves few, the radical and lower cauline broadly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, glabrous, acuminate, 15-20 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, gradually narrowed below, the upper ones linear; flow­ers green, rarely brown-purple, 12-15 mm. in diameter, the pedicels 5-12 mm. long, the ultimate bracts lanceolate, acumi­nate, about twice as long as the pedicels, the tepals narrowly oblong, ascending in fruit; capsules elliptic, about 12 mm. long. July-Aug, Alpine slopes.

Honshu (n. and centr. distr.).