Japan Flora: Stems much elongate, creeping, rooting at the nodes, appressed-strigose; leaves thick- chartaceous to somewhat coriaceous, ovate, 3-12 cm. long, 1.5-6 cm. wide, acute, cuneate at base, loosely obtuse-toothed, appressed-strigose on both surfaces, the petioles 3-28 mm. long; heads in 3's or sometimes solitary, 2-2.5 cm. across; in­volucres subglobose, the bracts ovate, densely short-strigose on back; achenes about 3 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, cuneate at base, 3- or 4-angled, short-strigose at tip; pappus crownlike, at first strigose-hairy, with 1 or 2 brisdes in fruit.  Apr.-Sept. Seashores.

Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu.