Stock slender or wiry; branches ascending or erect, terete, hirsute, leafy below, 1/4– 3/4 ft. high, simple, terminating in 1-headed peduncles of 1–4 in., naked or 1–2-bracteate. Leaves alternate, narrow-elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse and shortly apiculate or acute, base attenuate, subsessile, entire or with 1–2 small teeth, hispid or setulose, margin more or less revolute; about 1 in. long 1/5 in. broad. Capitula campanulate 1/2– 3/4 in. diameter. Involucral scales pluriseriate, linear-lanceolate, acute, setose-hirsute, loosely appressed, inner nearly 1/2 in. long, scarious-margined. Ray-florets 12–15. Apical connective of anthers linear-oblong. Achenes oblong compressed sericeous. Pappus 1-seriate, setaceous, scabrid, tawny, subequal.
