Rayless Goldenrod is an upright, smooth perennial. Its preferred habitat is pine woods, ditches and marshy areas. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

The leaves are mostly basal and spatula-shaped; stalked; no teeth and no lobes.  Stem leaves are also spatula-like or filiform.

The flowers are in clusters at the tip of a stem. Each flower is bisexual in nature and symmetrical in form. Disc flowers are yellow; ray flowers are absent.  Flowers occur in late summer and early autumn.

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