Plants 30-90 cm. Stems proximally usually glabrous, sometimes piloso-hirsute (hairs 3-8+ mm) and/or stellate-pubescent, distally usually glabrous. Leaves: basal 0(-2), cauline 6-12+; blades elliptic or oblanceolate to lanceolate, 30-80(-150) × 6-25(-35) mm, lengths 3-6+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually toothed, sometimes denticulate or entire, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or piloso-hirsute (hairs 1-4+ mm). Heads (6-)12-50+ in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles usually glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 8-13+. Involucres campanulate to cylindric, 6-7 mm. Phyllaries 8-13+, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces usually glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Florets 8-20(-30); corollas ochroleucous to yellow, 5-8 mm. Cypselae columnar, 2-2.5 mm; pappi of 35-40+, stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 4-5 mm. Flowering (Jul-)Aug(-Oct). Openings in forests; (10-)500-800 m; N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Ala., Conn., Del., Ga., Ind., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va. The type of Hieracium scribneri Small may have resulted from a cross between plants of H. paniculatum and H. venosum (A. Cronquist 1980).