| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Ixeris japonica (Burm.f.) Nakai trib. Cichorieae |
| Bibliography | Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 40: 575 (1026) |
| Native Range | China to Temp. East Asia and Vietnam |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-500m |
| Description | glabrous, basal leaves elliptic or sublinear, entire to pinnate, tapered to petiole, stem leaves similar, smaller, capitula 1-6 in lax corymb, involucre cylindrical |
| Size | 15-35cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, sunny site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Barkhausia repens Spreng. Chondrilla debilis (Thunb.) Poir. Ixeris debilis (Thunb.) A.Gray Ixeris japonica var. litoralis (Kitam.) H.L.Li Ixeris litoralis Kitam. Lactuca debilis (Thunb.) Benth. ex Maxim. Lactuca trifida Kitam. Lapsana japonica Burm.f. Prenanthes debilis Thunb. Youngia debilis (Thunb.) DC. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHM Manchuria, CHS China Southeast) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea, NNS Nansei-shoto, OGA Ogasawara-shoto, TAI Taiwan) 4 Asia-Tropical 41 Indo-China (VIE Vietnam) |