Japan Flora: Coarse perennial herb 60-100 cm. high, with spreading hispid hairs; radical leaves petioled, pinnate, the lateral leaflets rather small, 2 to 5 pairs, alternate, with very small accessory segments, the terminal leaflet rhombic-ovate to orbicular, 5-10 cm. long, 3-10 cm. wide, acute to rounded at apex, cuneate to subcordate at base, irregularly toothed, the cauline leaves short-petioled, 3- to 5-foliolate, the stipules obovate, incised; flowers 3-10, long-pedicelled, 15-20 mm. across, yellow； June-Sept. Thickets and grassy places in lowlands
and low mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu; common. e. Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia, China, Korea, and N. America (var.)