Herbs, perennial, 50-130 cm tall; rootstock 1.5-2.5 cm thick, woody, upper parts puberulent or glabrescent, strongly aromatic. Sterile stems 5-30 cm, leaves clustered at apex; leaf blade spatulate, 3.5-8 × 1-3 cm, pinnately lobed, toothed, apex rounded. Basal and lower stem leaves ± sessile; leaf blade oblong-obovate to broadly spatulate or flabellate, (3-)4-6(-8) × (1-)2-2.5(-3) cm, puberulent or glabrescent, obliquely pinnatipartite or-cleft from apex to center, few serrate apically. Middle stem leaves: leaf blade spatulate, cuneate, or narrowly spatulate, 2.5-3.5(-4.5) × 0.5-1(-2) cm, obliquely partite or cleft and few serrate at apex or lobes linear. Uppermost leaves 3-cleft or entire; leaflike bracts elliptic, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate. Synflorescence a ± narrow panicle, 15-20 × 3-15(-20) cm panicle; branches almost horizontal or obliquely patent, 3-20 cm. Capitula many, nodding, shortly to long pedunculate. Involucre ovoid or subglobose, 1.5-2.5 mm in diam.; phyllaries glabrous, outermost ovate, very narrowly white scarious on margin, apex acute. Florets 12-15(-20), yellow. Marginal female florets 3-8(-11); corolla narrow, 2-toothed. Disk florets 5-10, male. Achenes dark brown, 0.8-1 mm, obovoid. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov. 2n = 18, 36, 37.
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A herb. It grows 50-90 cm high. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a woody rootstock 2-3 cm thick. The leaves are clustered at the top. The leaves are spoon shaped and 4-8 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. There are lobes along the stalk and teeth along the edge.
It is a tropical and subtropical plant. In Pakistan it grows in mixed gravely sands between 500-1,200 m above sea level. In China it grows from low elevations to 3,300 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Sunny hills and low elevations in mountains all over Japan. Forest margins, waste areas, shrublands, hills, slopes and roadsides; from low elevations to 3,300 metres.
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