Japan Flora: Stems slender, 30-40 cm. long, glabrous; lower and median cauline leaves chartaceous, sometimes elongate-deltoid, 7-9 cm. long, long-acuminate, sagittate or rarely truncate at base, de­current, mucronate-toothed, ciliolate, puberulent above and on veinlets beneath, the upper leaves gradually smaller, short- petiolate or sessile, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, truncate to cuneate at base; heads few, in loose corymbs, with slender pedi­cels; involucres tubular, 12-13 mm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, the bracts 6-seriate, loosely cobwebby, the outer lanceolate or ovate- lanceolate, acuminate, recurved in upper half, nearly glabrous, the inner membranous, linear, acute; corollas purplish, 12 mm. long. July-Sept. 

Honshu (Yamato Prov.), Shikoku.