Stems erect, 20-100 cm. Cauline leaf blades lanceolate to linear, reduced distally (becoming bractlike near heads), margins usually serrate apically, rarely entire. Peduncles usually glabrate, sometimes hispid, stipitate-glandular. Involucres turbinate, (2-)2.5-5 mm diam. Ray florets 5-11; corolla laminae 4-6 mm. Disc florets (9-)14-22(-26). 2n = 8. Flowering (Jul-)Aug-Oct(-Nov). Sand, sandy loam, and sandy clay, oak and pine woods, usually in openings, roadsides, banks, fencerows; 0-500 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tex., Va.