Japan Flora: Biennial; stems 30-150 cm. long, puberulent, winged or wingless; radical and lower cauline leaves petiolate, oblong to narrowly so or elliptic, 12-18 cm. long, pinnatiparted, the segments 6-10 pairs, lanceolate, puber- ulent on both sides, densely glandular-dotted beneath; heads many; involucres broadly campanulate, 11-13 mm. long, 10-14 mm. wide; bracts 6- or 7-seriate, with a lobnlate scarious apical appendage, the outer ovate, the median narrowly oblong, the inner linear; corollas purplish, 11-13 mm. long. Aug.-Oct Grassy slopes in mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Sakhalin, Manchuria, and e. Siberia.