Leaf blades truncate to cordate-hastate at base, margins usually strongly toothed. Glomerules red, 6-10 mm diam., fleshy in fruit.

Fruiting summer-fall. Moist to dry soil, sandy or grassy meadows, thickets, open woods, old fields of clearings in forest; 20-3000 m; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., N.W.T., N.S., Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon; Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Conn., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nev., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., S.Dak., Utah, Vt., Wash., Wis., Wyo.; introduced in Eurasia and elsewhere.