Japan Flora: Slightly glaucescent annual or biennial; stems 30-70 cm. long, much branched, often pur­plish red; cauline leaves membranous, spathulate, rarely pin­nately divided, 5-10 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, rather abruptly winged-petiolate, mucronatc-toothed, glaucous beneath; upper leaves lingulate, sessile, auriculate-clasping; corymbs terminal and axillary, few-headed; heads about 1.5 cm. across, yellow, nodding in fruit, the florets 10-13; involucres dark green, the inner bracts 7 or 8; achenes lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long inclu­sive of the short beak, punctate-scaberulous. Sept-Nov. Sunny slopes and roadsides in mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Korea, Manchuria, China, and Jndochina.

f. pinnatipartita (Makino) Kitam. Leaves pinnatiparted.