Plants 30-120(-200) cm. Stems lax, sprawling or scandent. Leaves: petioles (0.5-)1-3.5(-4) cm; blades triangular-deltate, (1-)2-5(-7) × (1-)1.5-3.5(-5) cm, bases usually truncate to cordate, sometimes obtuse, margins coarsely serrate to crenate-serrate, apices acute to acuminate. Involucres 4-5 mm. Phyllaries: outer lanceolate, inner lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, apices usually acute to attenuate, sometimes rounded. Corollas usually pink-purple or whitish with pink to lilac lobes, rarely all white. Cypselae 1.8-2.8 mm, usually sparsely strigoso-hirtellous, sometimes glabrate. 2n = 20. Flowering Oct-Dec. Woodlands, thickets, moist soil, roads, ditches, stream banks, bottomlands, swamps, depressions, cedar glades; 10-200 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.; Mexico. Fleischmannia incarnata was reported to occur in 's. Ariz.;' the report almost certainly was based on misidentification of F. sonorae.
