Japan Flora: Perennial with elongate, knotty rhi­zomes 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide; stems 30-100 cm. long, terete; radical leaves withering before anthesis, the cauline firmly chartaceous, long-petiolate, pinnately 3- to 5-sectcd, 8-11 cm. long, short-spinulose on margin, the segments elliptic or obovate-oblong, the terminal larger, glabrous and lustrous above, slightly cobwebby beneath, with prominent veinlets, the upper leaves small and often simple, subsessile; heads ter­minal, erect, 15-20 mm. across, the bracteal leaves 2-seriate, as long as the head, bipinnate, the segments bristlelike; involu­cres campanulate, 10-12 mm. long, 12-14 mm. wide, the bracts 7- or 8-seriate, the corollas whitish, 10-12 mm. long; pappus brownish, 8-9 mm. long. Sept.—Oct. Hills and mountains.

Honshu, Kyushu; common. Korea and Man­churia.