Glabrous except for the slightly scabrous lf-margins, 4–10 dm; lvs densely and strongly glandular punctate, obscurely to sometimes evidently 3-nerved, without any additional lateral nerves, linear, 4–10 cm × 1.5–4(–6) mm; heads sessile in small glomerules or somewhat pedunculate, mostly 14–20-fld, the short rays 10–14, the disk-fls 4–6; invol (4.5–)5–6.5 mm, narrow, ± strongly glutinous, its bracts obtuse or the inner acute; 2n=36. Open, often sandy, moist to rather dry places; s. Minn. and w. Ill. to Mo., Colo., and Tex. (Solidago g.)