They are perennial plant that grows in the somewhat arid forests of mountain district and in the pool of forests. (Perennial plant takes several years to grow). Radical leaf (Konseiyou: leaves growing near the root of stalk) spreads on the ground radially. From its center does grow a thin stalk with soft, dense paraphyllium and they bear 1 flower downward at the top, which looks like a bowl of tobbaco pipe on the top of a pipe. The flower is a yellow capitulum (Touka: a flower consisting of small dense tubular flowers) about 5 mm in diameter and the smallest among Japanese Carpesium divaricatum group. The involucre (Soho: transformed leaves to wrap the flower base) at the root of flowers is bell contour shape about 6.5 mm long. A radical leaf is paddle shaped about 6 to 15 cm long with spiny sawtooth at the edge (Kyoshi: tooth-like rough part like a saw at the root of a leaf). The leaves grow effuse and alternate on the stalk. A radical leaf remains, even when the time of bloom is come. When flowers wither, they bear the seed about 3.5 mm long. The seed produces mucilage from the top so that the seed will be attached and carried.

●Season　　Late August to about Early October
●Height　　about 15 to 45 cm
●Place　　 Trail 1 to 6, Mt.Inari, Jyataki, Iroha, Ura-Takao, Oku-Takao,Minami- Takao,Kita-Takao