Intro: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of pocosins, swamp forests, wet savannas, wet pine flatwoods, maritime forests; often forms dense patches via stolons and rhizomes.

Stems: Stems branched in inflorescence, mostly smooth below but densely furry above.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile with somewhat clasping bases, crowded and ascending, narrowly elliptic, to 4 in. long, entire to vaguely toothed, rough-hairy above and hairy beneath.

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Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) on one side of the arching branches of a dense terminal panicle; heads about 1/4 in. long, consisting of 5-9 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of yellow tubular florets. 4-5 unequal series of tiny green bracts surround the narrowly bell-shaped base of each head.

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Height: 1 1/2-5 ft.

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description: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of pocosins, swamp forests, wet savannas, wet pine flatwoods, maritime forests; often forms dense patches via stolons and rhizomes.

stems: Stems branched in inflorescence, mostly smooth below but densely furry above.

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile with somewhat clasping bases, crowded and ascending, narrowly elliptic, to 4 in. long, entire to vaguely toothed, rough-hairy above and hairy beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) on one side of the arching branches of a dense terminal panicle; heads about 1/4 in. long, consisting of 5-9 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of yellow tubular florets. 4-5 unequal series of tiny green bracts surround the narrowly bell-shaped base of each head.

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native range: southeastern U.S., north to NJ