Polypteris integrifolia Nuttall, Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 139. 1818

Subshrubs or shrubs, 30–150 cm. Stems strigillose to glabrate, not stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades lanceolate to linear, 25–90 × 2–13 mm. Involucres broadly turbinate. Phyllaries 8–11 × 1–3.5 mm, unequal, glabrous or glabrate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 10–26; corollas ± actinomorphic, 7–13 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes. Cypselae 5–6 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 4–7 mm. 2n = 24.

Flowering (spring–)late summer–fall. Sandy soils; 0–50+ m; Fla., Ga.