Plants more slender. Leaves: proximal 150-200 × 50-60 mm; distal numerous, reduced to bracts in arrays, margins usually finely serrate to entire. Flowering Sep-Oct. Low wet ground, swamp margins, wet meadows; 10-200 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tex., Va.