Plants 4-10 dm, viscidulous-puberulent throughout, the lvs commonly subtomentosely so beneath; lvs opposite, sessile, slender, 5-13 נ0.5-1.5 cm, evenly serrate, long-acuminate; heads ±numerous in a flat-topped infl; invol 3.5-5 mm, its bracts broadly rounded to acutish, imbricate in ca 3 series, the inner tending to be somewhat whitish distally, the outer less than half as long as the inner; fls white, 9-14 per head; 2n=20. Pocosins, bogs, and other wet places, often in pine-barrens; L.I. (where now probably extinct) and N.J. to Del. and rarely N.C. Aug.-Oct.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.