Japan Flora: Perennial herb usually nearly glabrous, with stout creep­ing rhizomes; stems 40-80 cm. long, often branching above; leaflets of radical leaves 11-13, rather thin, ovate-orbicular to oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, rounded at apex, cordate to rounded at base, glaucous beneath, acutely toothed, the petiolules 5-15 mm. long, the cauline leaves smaller, often with appressed soft short hairs near base; spikes few, erect, 3-8 cm. long, 7-10 mm. across exclusive of the stamens, very densely many-flowered, flowering first from the base, white, often slightly greenish; filaments 7-8 mm. long，slightly broadened above; stigma rather small. Aug.-Sept. Alpine meadows.

Hokkaido, Honshu (Kanto and northern part o£ the centr. distr.); rare.

var. riishirensis (Nhkino) Hara. With reddish brown curledhairs on stems and leaf-rachises. Hokkaido.