Japan Flora: Stems 40-60 cm. long, wingless, sparingly branched; radical leaves loug-petio- late, oblong, 8-25 cm. long, acute, hastate at base, mucronate­toothed, pale bluish green beneath, short appressed-puberulent on both sides, the median and upper leaves gradually becoming smaller, short-petiolate or sessile, oblong-lanceolate to lanceo­late, gradually acuminate, hastate to cuneate at base; heads 2 or 3, the short peduncles glandular and puberulent, often bracte- ate; involucres campanulate, about 17 mm. long, 18-20 mm. wide; bracts 7-seriate, tlie outer and median somewhat shorter than the inner, lanceolate, about 3 mm. wide, acuminate, cobwebby, glandular and short-puberulent on back, long re­curved on upper half, the inner linear, acuminate; corollas purplish, 12.5-14 mm. long. Aug.-Oct. Rocky cliffs in mountains.

Honshu (w. Kanto Distr. and Kai Prov.). 

f. pinnatiloba Kitam. Leaves pinnately lobed on lower half.