Annuals, 10-90 cm. Stems usually proximally appressed-pubescent, distally stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, 30-90 × 2-6 mm. Involucres turbinate. Phyllaries 6-8 × 1.5-3 mm, ± equal, ± scabrous to puberulous and stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 3-8; corollas 15-25 mm, laminae 6-12 mm. Disc florets 12-30; corollas ± actinomorphic, 5-8 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes. Cypselae 5-6 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 3-6 mm. 2n = 24.

Flowering late summer-fall. Sandy soils; 10-100+ m; Tex.