Plants 20-80 cm. Stems sparsely to densely hirsute to hirsute-villous, sometimes strigose distally, gland-dotted. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline oblanceolate, mostly 3.5-15 cm; cauline gradually reduced, faces gland-dotted. Heads in flat-topped, corymbiform arrays. Peduncles villoso-hirsute, gland-dotted. Involucres 7-11 mm. Phyllaries 15-40+ in 3-5+ series, ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate, villous, and gland-dotted, apices acute to obtuse. Receptacles partially paleate (paleae often 4-5). Corollas glandular, lobes ca. 2 mm. Cypselae eglandular; pappus bristles in ± 1 series. 2n = 20. Flowering Aug-Oct. Moist to dry pine savannas, flatwoods, pine-oak woodland, wire-grass savannas, fields, sometimes more moist, peaty soils, shrub bogs, seepage; 10-50 m; Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.