Japan Flora: Slender, small, stemless annua); leaves narrowly linear, to 7 cm. long, 1 mm. wide, gradually narrowed to an acute apex, 1- to 3-nerved; peduncles few, 5-6 cm. tall, capillary, 3-ribbed; heads turbinate, 2-3 mm. long, 2 mm. across, few-flowered, the receptacle glabrous; involucral bracts 2-3, narrowly ovate, rather obtuse, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; floral bracts elliptic, obtuse-tipped, ciliolate; pistillate flowers about 2 mm. long, the calyx pale, thin, deeply 3-lobed, white-pubescent on the upper margin, the petals 3, free, lanceolate, glabrous out­side, pilose inside, the stigmas 3. 

Hokkaido (Iburi Prov.).