Subshrubs or shrubs, 30-150 cm. Stems strigillose to glabrate, not stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades lanceolate to linear, 25-90 × 2-13 mm. Involucres broadly turbinate. Phyllaries 8-11 × 1-3.5 mm, unequal, glabrous or glabrate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 10-26; corollas ± actinomorphic, 7-13 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes. Cypselae 5-6 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 4-7 mm. 2n = 24.

Flowering (spring-)late summer-fall. Sandy soils; 0-50+ m; Fla., Ga.