Plants 30-100 cm. Stems with 20-85 leaves or leafy bracts proximal to heads. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline lanceolate to lanceolate- or oblanceolate-spatulate, mostly 110-270 × 5-25 mm, glabrous or hirtello-puberulent, weakly, if at all, gland-dotted. Heads usually 5-30. Florets 35-60.

Flowering (Jul-)Aug-Sep. Sandy fields, woods, railroads, road banks; 20-100 m; Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Pa., R.I.