Also known as Wreath Aster and sometimes called Heath Aster.

Plant is an upright or reclining smooth to slightly hairy perennial. Preferred habitat is woodlands, roadsides and meadows. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Leaves are alternate on the stem; upper leaves tiny, spreading to recurved, widest at the middle, rough feeling above, tapering to the tip with sides less than equal. Leaf base graduates to a narrow point or is wedge-shaped; margins may have minute teeth. Due to frequent hybridizing the leaf shape may vary; sometimes in the same colony of plants.

Flowers are in a panicle (multiple flowers arranged one above the other along a stem and then shorter stems protruding from the main); symmetrical in shape. Disc flowers are bisexual and may be red or yellow; ray flowers are all female, numerous and white. Flowering occurs in late summer and extends into autumn.

Fruit is a seed which outer layer is fused to it (achene).