Erect or procumbent woody sub-shrub to 30 cm high. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–60 mm long, 2–12 mm wide, 6–12 times longer than broad, irregularly dentate or denticulate, acute; both surfaces with sparse cover of non-glandular hairs, glabrescent; resin globules present, but often not apparent on older leaves. Capitula sessile, campanulate to cylindrical, 5–6 mm long; outer involucral bracts entire, with dense eglandular hairs; inner bracts lanceolate, 4.2–6.0 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm wide, acuminate, entire on upper margins, hairy on outer surface. Disc florets 1–6; corolla 4-lobed, cylindrical, 1.9–2.1 mm long, pink; lobes 0.2–0.3 mm long, glandular. Achenes cylindrical, 1.7–2.3 mm long, 12–16-ribbed. Pappus bristles 9–13, 0.3–1.9 mm long.
Growson floodplains and riverbanks, often where the water is brackish, associatedwith various sedges or Sporobolusvirginicus grassland.
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