Japan Flora: Perennial herb uniformly hirsute with long spreading hairs; rhi­zomes slender; radical leaves 4 or 5, oblanceolate, 12-25 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, gradually attenuate at base; scapes 1 to 3, decumbent after anthesis; cauline leaves 2 or 3, remote, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, the upper rounded at base, 4-8 cm. long; racemes terminal, simple, loosely 4- to 8-flowered, the bracts 1 to 3, similar to the cauline leaves, the lowest bract always proliferous in the axil in fruit; corolla rose-colored, the limb nearly 1 cm. across, 5-partcd, the lobes orbicular; nutlets smooth, about 2 mm. long. May.

Hon­shu (Owari Prov.); rare.