Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2-5(-8) × 0.3-0.9(-1.5) cm, tomentose to floccose adaxially, not thickened, attenuate to rarely rounded proximally.

Flowering Aug-Nov. Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland and mesquite com-munities, oak and conifer woodlands; 10-500(-800) m; Ark., La., Okla., Tex.

Variety multiflorum is widespread and infrequent to common in scattered and disjunct populations in southern Oklahoma, central and east-central Texas, central Arkansas, and north-central Louisiana.