Japan Flora: Larger and less pubescent; stems stouter, often shortly branched; leaves 1-4 cm. wide, the shal­lowly lobed bracts leaflike; inflorescence cymose, loose, few­flowered, without bulbils; calyx-lobes broadly ovate; petals broadly obovate, about 5 mm. long, 1.5-2 times as long as the calyx-lobes; capsules subinferior, broadly obovoid, about 8 nun. long, shallowly 2-lobed; seeds ovoid, smooth.  July-Aug. Wet rocks near the sea.

Hokkaido (Nemuro Prov.). Ku­riles, Sakhalin, Ochotsk Sea region, Alaska, and Kamchatka.