Japan Flora: Stems 30-120 cm. long, very leafy, wingless, glabrous; radical leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 7-18 cm. long, acuminate-mucronate, cordate, truncate, or sub- hastate at base, puberulent on both sides or glabrous, long- petiolate, usually pinnately lobulate to cleft, the lobes 3 to 7 pairs, obovate, toothed or lobulate, the upper cauline gradually reduced, ovate to lanceolate, truncate to cuneate at base; heads many, in dense corymbs, very short pedicellate; involucres tubular, 12-13 mm. long, 4-7 mm. across, cobwebby; bracts 3- to 7-seriate, the outer very short, oblong or ovate, about 2 mm. long, cuspidate, the inner linear, obtuse; corollas purplish, 9-13 mm. long. Sept.-Oct. Mountains.

Honshu, Kyushu. Ussuri, Manchuria, Korea, and n. China.

var. nivea Kitam. Leaves white- cobwebby beneath. Honshu (Bingo Prov.). Korea.