Plants (10-)20-60(-100) cm. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline usually withered by flowering; basal blades linear to ovate, usually entire or pinnately toothed sometimes pinnatifid; proximal blades usually linear, usually entire, sometimes pinnately toothed. Ray corollas 6.5-14 × 4-10 mm. Disc florets 75-150+; corollas yellow to yellow-brown distally, 2-2.7 mm. Cypselae 0.9-1.3 mm; pappi of 6-8 scales 1.2-1.8 mm. 2n = 30.
This species has only recently appeared in this state, and, no doubt, in time will become an obnoxious weed at least in the southern part of the state. I first found it in 1931 in a 3-acre hogyard and it covered at least a fourth of the area. Hogs in the yard did not feed upon it. It is a native of the southern states and is introduced northward.
