Weakly taprooted to fibrous-rooted biennial or more often short-lived perennial 3–8 dm, often decumbent or ascending, floccose-woolly throughout; lvs numerous, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or rounded, ± entire, the lower to ca 6 cm × 18 mm, gradually reduced upward; heads few in an open infl, hemispheric, the disk 1.2–2.5 cm wide; invol 7–11 mm; rays mostly ca 34, and ca 1 cm; achenes narrowly obovate; 2n=18. Sandy places, often with pine or scrub oak; coastal plain from Va. to Fla. and Ala. Sept., Oct. (C. longii)
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