Perennials or subshrubs, 100-300 cm. Stems strigillose to nearly glabrous, not stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades narrowly elliptic, broadly oblong, or ovate, 20-60 × 5-25 mm. Involucres campanulate or broadly to narrowly turbinate. Phyllaries 5-9 × 1-1.5 mm, ± equal, ± strigillose. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 15-30; corollas ± actinomorphic, 10-14 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes. Cypselae 6-8 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 1.5-2 mm. 2n = 24.

Flowering (spring-)late summer-fall. Sandy soils; 0-10 m; Fla.