大头橐吾(原变种) da tou tuo wu (yuan bian zhong)

Arnica japonica Thunberg in Murray, Syst. Veg., ed. 14, 768. 1784; Erythrochaete palmatifida Siebold & Zuccarini; Ligularia macrantha (C. B. Clarke) H. Koyama; Senecillis japonica (Thunberg) Kitamura; Senecio japonicus (Thunberg) Schultz Bipontinus (1845), not Thunberg (1784), nor (Linnaeus) Lessing (1832); S. macranthus C. B. Clarke; S. palmatifidus (Siebold & Zuccarini) Wittrock & Juel.

Leaves adaxially glabrous.

Stream banks, grassland slopes, forest understories; 900-2300 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, ?Guizhou, ?Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea; cultivated in North America].