Japan Flora: Stems 50-150 cm. long, wingless, loosely short-pubescent, glandular-dotted; radical and lower cauline leaves long-petio- late, large, oblong, 11-30 cm. long, acute or cuspidate, cuneate at base, pinnately parted, the lateral segments 4 to 6 pairs, oblanceolate, mucronate, entire to irregularly sinuate-incised, the terminal segments short-pubescent on both sides, often loosely glandular-dotted beneath, the cauline leaves gradually smaller toward tip, oblong to lanceolate, entire to pinnatiparte^ short- petiolate or sessile, semiclasping; heads many, in loose corymbs, on slender pedicels; involucres narrowly tubular, 10-14 mm. long, about 6 mm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 8-seriate> the inner gradually longer, broadly linear, obtuse, the outer very short, ovate, the median oblong, ending in a callose tip; corollas purplish, 11-13 mm. long.-- Aug.-Oct. Grassy places in mountains.