Cauline leaves: mid and distal crowded, greatly overlapping, lanceolate to ovate, 35-70 × 6-12 mm, little reduced distally. Involucres 6-8 mm. Phyllary faces sparsely to moderately (rarely densely) sericeous proximally and distally, eglandular. Ray florets 7-10; laminae 4.6-6.1 mm. Disc florets 15-20; corollas 3.2-4.5 mm, lobes 0.4-0.7 mm, glabrous. 2n = 18.

Flowering late summer-early fall. Sandy soils; 10-40 m; Fla.

Narrower leaved plants of var. aequilifolia are similar to var. tenuifolia, with which it hybridizes.