Cauline leaves 20-80 × 3-7 mm, reduced distally. Involucres 12-14 mm. Phyllary faces moderately to densely sericeous. Ray florets 13-25; laminae 9-15 mm. Disc florets 30-37; corollas 3.6-6 mm, lobes 0.4-0.8 mm, throats and lobes sometimes sparsely to moderately long-pilose. 2n = 54.

Flowering late fall-winter. Sandy and rocky soils, margins of pine woods and shrublands; 0-30 m; Fla.

Variety tracyi is possibly adventive in northern Alabama. Spring-blooming plants of var. graminifolia can look similar because of aberrant development of only a few, and therefore larger, heads. This is the only variety with sometimes moderately long-pilose disc corolla throats and lobes throughout.