Japan Flora: Small perennial, puberulent especially on petioles and spikes; stems erect, simple, 10-20 cm. long, scapelike, with long spreading hairs below the nodes and with small leaves near the middle; radical and lower cauline leaves ovate or narrowly so, 3-6 cm. long, twice or sometimes once pinnate, sparingly pilose, long-petiolate, the terminal leaflets larger, rhombic- orbicular, 1-1.5 cm. long, petioluled, the lateral ones sessile or petioluled, 2 or 3 pairs, ovate or broadly so, 7-12 mm. long, obtuse, few-toothed; spikes 3-6 cm. long, the bracts shorter than the pedicels; calyx 5-8 mm. long; corolla white, about 8 mm. long, glabrescent outside; nutlets elliptic, 15 mm. long. Mar.-July.

Honshu (centr. and w. distr.), Shikoku, Kyu­shu. Ryukyus (?) and Formosa (var.).