Japan Flora: Biennial herb; stems 50-150 cm. long, striate, loosely glandular-puberulent; radical leaves long- petiolate, oblong, 20-35 cm. long, gradually narrowed at both ends, usually pinnatifid, sometimes undivided, the terminal lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the lateral lobes 7 or 8 pairs, narrowly oblong, usually pinnately lobulate, glandular-puberu- lent on both sides; cauline leaves gradually reduced; heads many; involucres tubular, 8.5-12.5 mm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, cobwebby, the bracts 6-seriate, rounded, with a scarious apical appendage; corollas purplish, 10-14 mm. long. Oct-Nov. Grassy slopes in lowlands and mountains.

Kyushu. Korea, Manchuria, China, and Formosa.