Stems sericeous proximally, glabrous or glabrate distally, stipitate-glandular throughout. Leaves: proximal cauline faces sericeous; mid to distal margins stipitate-glandular, faces usually glabrate. 2n = 18.

Flowering Aug-Oct (sometimes spring). Open, sandy soils; 20-60 m; Fla., Ga.

Variety aspera grows in a limited area of northern Florida and extreme southern Gerogia.

Peduncles, as well as the invol, stipitate-glandular, scarcely silky; heads avg smaller; invol 5-8(-10) mm; rays more often 8 than 13, mostly 4-8 mm; disk-fls mostly 15-30, the dry cors 4-6.5 mm; 2n=18, 36. Va. to n. Fla. and s. Miss., commonest on the piedmont. (Heterotheca a.; Pityopsis a.)

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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