Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Leaves, ovate or lyre-shaped, toothed. Heads, 8 to 12-rlowered with 8 long bracts making a cylindrical cup. No pappus. A slender, branching plant, with small, loosely panicled heads of flowers. June to September.

Waste places along roadsides from Quebec to Pennsylvania and westward to Michigan. 1 to 3 1/2 feet high.