Japan Flora: Stems 19-70 cm. long, narrowly winged, puberulent, the branches densely brown-puberulent on upper portion; radical and lower cauline leaves broadly to narrowly ovate, mucronate- acuminate, rarely obtuse, hastate or cordate at base, denticulate, brown-puberulent on both sides, usually long winged-petio- late; median and upper leaves gradually reduced, decurrent; heads few, in corymbs, short-pedicelled; involucres cam­panulate, about 16 mm. long and as wide, cobwebby, densely brown-puberulent; bracts 5-seriate, the outer slightly more than half the length of the inner, ovate-lanceolate, acute, erect, about 4 mm. wide at base, the median lanceolate, acumi­nate, as long as the inner; corollas purplish, 11-12 mm. long.  Aug.-Sept. Alpine.

Honshu (n. distr.).