Plants 10-60 cm. Leaf blades 2-12 × 1-4 cm, margins denticulate to coarsely and regularly dentate or repand-dentate with callous-tipped teeth. Involucres 5-8 mm. Phyllaries: apices acute, abaxial faces ± glandular. Ray or pistillate corollas: laminae ca. 0.5 mm or none. Cypselae 1.5-2 mm; pappi 3-4 mm. 2n = 20.

Flowering Dec-Apr(-May), sporadically year-round. Rocky pinelands, pine-palm woods, commonly moist habitats; 0-10 m; Fla.; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica).