The plant is an upright, hairy perennial. Pre-
ferred habitat is waste sites, roadsides, along rail lines and in open fields.  Distri-
bution is throughout the Escambia region.

The leaves are opposite on the stem, lance-
like to widest at the middle.  Leaf tip tapers to a long or short point, with the sides of the point being pinched in, setting it off abruptly from the lower portion of the leaf.   The mar-
gins are toothed and the base is wedge-
shaped, or somewhat squared.

Flowers are at the end of the stem in flat-topped clusters of heads; bisexual and symmetrical in form. Disc flowers are grayish-white. Flowers occur in early autumn.

Fruit is a seed which outer layer is fused to it (achene).