Japan Flora: Rather fleshy ever­ green herb 15-40 cm. high, very sparsely long-hairy or gla­bra te; stems naked at base, the bud hidden, hairy; sterile blade thick-herbaceous, 5-angled in outline, 3- or 4-ternate, 4-15 cm. long, 5-20 cm. wide, glabrous or nearly so, the primary and secondary segments petiolulate, ovate or ovate-deltoid, ob­tuse, the ultimate segments ovate, lobed, crenate- to mucronate­toothed, obtuse, the petiole rather stout, arising immediately above the base, 3-15 cm. long; fertile panicle long>pedunculate, erect, pyramidal, 4-10 cm. long, dense.         Sept-Nov. Thickets and grassy places in lowlands and low mountains.

Honshu, Shikokn, Kynshu; rather common. Ryukyus, Formosa, China to the Himalayas.