Japan Flora: 1.5-2 m. long, stout, densely crisped-puberulent, winged, densely leafy, much branched in upper portion; cauline leaves on short winged petioles, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic- lanceolate, 14-19 cm. long, short-acuminate, cordate to trun­cate or cuneate at base, mucronately callose-toothed, glabrous above, densely gray-pubescent and whitish beneath, decurrent at base on the winged stem, the upper leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate; heads in very dense corymbs; involucres narrowly tubular, green, 10-12 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; bracts 5- seriate, slightly brownkh toward the tip, cobwebby on margin, the outer short, obtuse to rounded, the median narrowly ob­long, the inner linear; corollas 1 cm. long. July-Sept. Rocks near the sea.

Hokkaido. s. Kuriles.