Japan Flora: Leaves many, linear-lanceolate, 10-30 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, acute, pinnately parted, pectinate, the segments linear, the terminal one smaller; scapes many, shorter than to as long as the leaves, loosely cobwebby, villous under the head; heads 3.5-4 cm. across; involucres 15-20 mm. long, about 2 cm. wide, the outer bracts appressed, corniculate or rarely not so, white-ciEate, broadly ovate or ovatc-oblong, obtuse, less than half as long as the inner, the inner bracts linear-lanceolate, distinctly scari­ous on margin, blackish; achenes pale yellow-brown or brownish, oblong, 4.5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, somewhat warty, with a spinelike apical appendage.

Honshu (EtchuProv., Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku.