Herbs, perennial, or subshrubs, 80-150 cm tall, much branched, sparsely puberulent or glabrescent. Leaves shortly petiolate or ± sessile; leaf blade abaxially densely gray arachnoid tomentose, adaxially gray or yellowish tomentose or glabrescent. Lowermost leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 6-12 × 3-8 cm, (1 or)2-pinnatipartite; distal lobes larger; segments 3 or 4 pairs, winged at midvein. Middle stem leaves ovate, oblong-ovate, or elliptic, 5-8 × 3-5 cm, (1 or)2-pinnatipartite; segments 3(or 4) pairs; distal lobe larger; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 10-20 × 3-5 mm; lobules deeply serrate, acute or acuminate apically. Uppermost leaves pinnatipartite; leaflike bracts 3-lobed or entire. Capitula sessile or inconspicuously pedunculate, ± erect, remote in broadly conical, almost leafless panicle with obliquely spreading, up to 18 cm long branches. Involucre ovoid, oblong-ovoid, or broadly ovoid, 3-4 × ca. 2 mm; phyllaries puberulent to glabrous. Florets 15-20, yellowish, all fertile. Marginal female florets 4-10; corolla tubular, ± glandular, 2-toothed. Disk florets 8-12, bisexual, basally glandular. Achenes brown, oblong or obovoid, ca. 1.25 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 80-150 cm tall. The leaves are grey underneath. The lowest leaves are oval and 6-12 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. They are divided into 3 or 4 pairs of segments. The leaves higher up are smaller and have teeth along the edge.
Waste ground in central and southern Japan. The sides of paths and tracks, margins of cleared forests at elevations of 300-2,500 metres in Nepal.
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Waste ground in central and southern Japan. The sides of paths and tracks, margins of cleared forests at elevations of 300-2500 metres in Nepal.
It is a tropical plant. It grows on the edges of forests and on slopes at low elevations to 2,000 m above sea level.
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