Japan Flora: Biennial, scabrous, densely short grayish strigose, the hairs retrorse on lower part of stems, spreading on the lower leaves beneath to ascending or up­wardly appressed; stems 30-50 cm. long, branched in upper part; lower leaves pedolate, the median sessile or short-pctio- late, narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute, acuminate at base, upper leaves 1.5-3 cm. long; racemes densely flowered, 10-20 cm. long; flowers about 3 mm. across, white or bluish; calyx-segments obliquely spread­ing in fruit.  July-Aug.

Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and widely spread in all warmer regions.