Plants 20-50(-90) cm. Stems densely puberulous or villoso-hirsute, densely gland-dotted. Leaves: basal (in rosettes) oblanceolate, mostly 3-7(-9) cm; cauline abruptly reduced, not clasping, faces gland-dotted. Heads in flat-topped, corymbiform arrays. Peduncles hirsutulous and sparsely gland-dotted. Involucres 4.5-6 mm. Phyllaries 5-12 in 1-2(-3) series, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic-ovate (inner pectinate-ciliate), villoso-hirsute, gland-dotted, apices acute to obtuse-mucronate. Receptacles epaleate or partially paleate (paleae 1-2). Corollas glandular, lobes 0.8-1 mm. Cypselae eglandular; pappus bristles in ± 2 series. 2n = 20.

Flowering (Jun-)Jul-Oct(-Nov). Low pinelands, pine and pine-palmetto flatwoods, grass-sedge bogs, seepage slopes, ditches, prairies; 60-100 m; Fla.