Japan Flora: Stems 50-70 cm. long, narrowly winged, densely brownish puberulent in upper part; lower and median cauline leaves cordate, 6-11 cm. long, mucronate-acuminate, cordate, abruptly mucronate-toothed, puberulent above, hairy along the nerves beneath, decurrent, petiolate; upper leaves gradually reduced, broadly ovate to lanceolate; heads in groups of 5-8, corym­bose; involucres glcfcose, about 13 mm. long and as wide; bracts 5-seriate, cobwebby, the outer and median herbaceous, as long as the inner, oblong to narrowly so, acuminate, the median and inner white-woolly on back, spreading above, the inner linear, blackish purple, appressed-puberulent; corollas purplish, about 11 mm. long. Aug. Alpine regions.

Hon­shu (n. distr.).