Golden Ragwort is also called Bitter Ragwort.

The plant is an upright smooth annual with yellow daisy-like flower heads in flat-topped clusters. Its preferred habitat is wet meadows, swamps, moist woods, and roadsides. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

The basal leaves are up to 6 inches long, heart-shaped in outline with long leaf stalks and rounded teeth. The upper stem leaves are about 4 inches long, and pinnately lobed.

The flowers are about 1/4 inch across, each head having 8 to 12 yellow ray flowers and yellow central disc flowers. Ray flowers are female only; disc flowers are bisexual in nature and symmetrical in form.

Fruit is achene.