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.