Japan Flora: Stems slender, 35-60 cm. long, hairy; radical and lower cauline leaves long-petiolate, ovate to broadly so, 7-11 cm. long, mucronate-acuminate, cordate at base, deeply sinuate, irregularly mucronate-toothed, puberulcnt on both sides, the cauline gradually becoming smaller above, short-petiolate or sessile, cordate to cuneate at base; heads in racemes or loose corymbs, pedicelled; involu­cres campanulate, 17-18 mm. long, densely cobwebby; bracts 7- seriate, acuminate, the outer about half as long as the inner, lanceolate, recurved on upper half, the inner membranous; corollas purplish, 13-14 mm. long. Sept-Oct. Woods in mountains.

Honshu (Musashi and Sagami Prov.)