Perennial 2-7 dm from a short caudex, sometimes also stoloniferous, persistently floccose-tomentose until flowering time or later, generally very densely so at the base, the upper lf-surfaces sometimes soon glabrate; basal lf-blades chiefly lance-ovate to elliptic or ovate and abruptly contracted to the petiole, to 20 נ5 cm, crenate or subentire; cauline lvs conspicuously reduced upwards, becoming sessile, entire or crenate, scarcely pinnatifid; heads several or rather many, the disk 7-12 mm wide; invol 4-6 mm; achenes hispidulous; 2n=46. Dry open places and pine woods, especially in sandy soil; s. N.J. to Fla. and Tex., chiefly on or near the coastal plain. Apr.-June.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
