Japan Flora: Rhizomes creeping, woody; stems 30-140 cm. long, striate, usually pubescent; lower and radical leaves long-petiolate, ovate-oblong, pinnately parted, the segments 6 or 7 pairs, oblong, acute, narrowly cune­ate at base, irregularly toothed, white-puberulent on both sides, the upper leaves smaller, short-petiolate or sessile; heads erect, long-pedunculate; involucres campanulate, 20-27 mm. long, yellow-green to purplish, slightly cobwebby; bracts 7-seriate, the outer lanceolate or broadly so, the median and inner acuminate, spine-tipped, the inner narrowly lanceolate, scari­ous; corollas pale rose-purple; achenes about 6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; pappus 11-14 mm. long.  Sept-Oct Moun­tains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea. Manchuria, and Siberia.