Plants scapiform, 50-250 cm; taprooted. Stems terete, glabrous (sometimes glaucous). Leaves: basal persistent, petiolate; cauline alternate, petiolate or sessile; blades cordate, deltate, elliptic, hastate, ovate, reniform, or sagittate, 2-35 × 0.5-52 cm, sometimes (proximal) pinnately or palmately lobed, bases oblique, truncate, attenuate, cordate, sagittate, or hastate, ultimate margins toothed, apices acute, faces glabrous, hispid, or scabrous. Phyllaries 11-18 in 2-3 series, outer appressed to reflexed, apices obtuse to cuspidate, abaxial faces sparsely scabrous. Ray florets 6-12; corollas yellow. Disc florets 20-85; corollas yellow. Cypselae 6-12 × 4-10 mm; pappi 1-4 mm. 2n = 14. Flowering summer-early fall. Open, pine and oak forests, sandy soils, fields, roadsides, meadows; 0-1600 m; Ala., Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.