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Clustered perennial 6–12 dm, leafy throughout, evidently pubescent with short, loosely spreading hairs, rarely glabrous, lvs relatively broad, mostly elliptic or ovate, short-petiolate, 4–10 × (1–)1.5–4 cm, entire or very often with 1(2) pair of much smaller but similarly shaped pinnae at base; pappus commonly of 2 short, chaffy teeth; otherwise much like no. 2 [Coreopsis grandiflora Hogg]; 2n=26, 28. Chiefly in woods, especially in sandy soil; Va. to s. Ill. and Okla., s. to Fla. and La.; occasionally intr. elsewhere. June–Sept.
