Plants 30-150 cm. Leaves opposite; petioles 1-10 mm; blades 1- or 3-nerved from bases, broadly rhombic-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 25-100 × 5-40 mm, margins entire or ± dentate. Heads in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 5-20 mm. Involucres 7-11 mm. Phyllaries green to stramineous, sometimes purple-tinged (lengths of outer to ¹/2 inner, apices acute to acuminate, not contorted). Florets 6-15; corollas pale yellow to maroon, 4.5-6 mm. Cypselae 4-5.5 mm. 2n = 18.

Flowering May-Oct. Open areas, wide range of soils; 200-2300 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Miss., N.J., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.

Locally infrequent to common in very sandy soil on open, wooded dunes and along roadsides in the extreme northern part of the state and in a few counties to the south of this area. In the southern part, and in a few of the central counties, it is found on high, wooded river bluffs, and on the crests and slopes of open, wooded ridges.

Plants 3-13 dm, densely puberulent to subglabrous; stems numerous; lvs narrowly lanceolate to broadly rhombic-lanceolate, the main ones 2.5-10 cm נ0.5-4 cm, gland-dotted beneath, entire or toothed, sessile or the lower short-petiolate; heads mostly in small corymbiform clusters terminating the branches; invol 7-14 mm, the inner bracts mostly linear or oblong, the outer subulate-deltoid to lanceolate, with slender attenuate tip; fls creamy-white; pappus-bristles 20; 2n=18. Dry open places, especially in sandy soil; N.J. to O., N.D., and Mont., s. to Fla. and Ariz. Aug.-Oct. (Brickellia e.) Three vars. in our range.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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