Japan Flora: Tufted perennial suHrutescent subshrub, with long dense ascending, white or grayish hairs; stems tufted, thick, short, ascending to short-creeping, from a stout often branched caudex; leaves radical, 5-8 cm. long, the stipules 15-20 mm. long, pubescent on the outside, the leaflets 8 to 11 pairs, rather thick, nar­rowly ovate-oblong to broadly ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, acute, with involute margins, less densely pubescent on upper side; peduncles or scapes about 20 cm. long, erect, about 7-flowcred; flowers bluish purple, about 20 mm. long; calyx-tube about half as long as the corolla, with long white silky pubescence outside.

Hokkaido (Rebun Isl.); rare.