Japan Flora: Stems 22-50 cm. long, slender, leafy; radical leaves narrowly oblong to broadly lanceolate, acumi­nate to acute, narrowed below to a winged petiole or truncate at base, usually pinnately lobed, rarely toothed, the lobes spreading, obtuse or acute, crisped-pubescent above, glabrous beneath, the median leaves gradually smaller, broadly linear to broadly lanceolate, slightly clasping and short-decurrent; heads 3 or 4 in a group; involucres narrowly tubular, 9-11 mm. long, about 6 mm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 5-seriate, loosely ar­ranged, the outer short, about 2/5 as long as the inner, ovate- lanccolatc or ovate, mucronate, the median oblong, the inner linear, acute, purplish; corollas purplish, 9-10 mm. long. Aug.-Oct. Grassy slopes in mountains

Shikoku, Kyushu.