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.

Plants 2-8 dm, the stem and generally also the lvs ±spreading-hirsute below, the hairs commonly shorter and more appressed upwards; tufted lower lvs oblanceolate or a little broader, 3.5-15 נ0.5-2 cm (petiole included); cauline lvs quickly reduced and becoming sessile, erect; heads 2-40 in an open-corymbiform, often flat-topped infl; invol campanulate, 7-11 mm, conspicuously viscid-hairy, its 20-40 bracts imbricate, firm, with rather lax or spreading, thick, often callous-pointed, acute or acutish tip; fls 15-30; achenes 3-4 mm; 2n=20. Sandy soil, especially in pine-barrens; se. Va. to S.C. and Ga. Aug.-Oct.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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