Plants 20-60 cm. Stems glabrous or glabrate (except peduncles), eglandular. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline usually ob-lanceolate, sometimes nearly spatulate, mostly 4-20 cm; cauline gradually reduced, faces gland-dotted. Heads in open, loose, usually corymbiform, sometimes paniculiform, arrays. Peduncles minutely puberulent (viscid, hairs not glandular). Involucres 7-12(-15) mm. Phyllaries 15-40+ in 3-5+ series, broadly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, glabrous, eglandular (except margins ciliate), apices rounded. Receptacles paleate (at least peripherally). Corollas eglandular, lobes 1.5-2.5 mm. Cypselae minutely sessile-glandular; pappus bristles in 1(-2) series. 2n = 20. Flowering Jul-Oct. Dunes, sandhills, sandy rises in flatwoods, sandy fields, roadsides, weedy banks, open pine, scrub oak, and turkey oak-pine woods; 10-40 m; Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.