@justin_thomas i was only made just aware of this taxon and it sounds like it occurs further afield than iNat shows. I had collected this thinking kind of a skinny sphaerocarpon and when I got it under the scope noticed, wow, quite a ligule for sphaerocarpon. 1 mm cilia. Spikelets about 1.4 to 1.5 avg. Internodes totally glabrous. Upper sheaths kind of verrucose or warty/splotchy (kind of like yadkinense). Leaves quite cordate/clasping in life but less apparent pressed. Afew pairs of long basal cilia on most leaves. The whitened leaf edge made me think I was messing up tenue (still kind of think that) but at least in FSUS that's in a different key entirely, and these didn't seem to have the basally disposed habit.
Proximal & distal sheaths double invested - short hairs beneath long pilose hairs.
Adaxial leaf surfaces inconsistently hairy along central portion of leaf.
Spikelets >2.1mm
Growing on deep sands in cleared woodland
On a glady ridge top.
On a small gladey ridge top. Different sci name in MO plant website
On a small gladey ridge top. The only fleabane I saw there.
On a small gladey ridge top
Isolated gladey knoll. AI suggestion which I don’t see this species on the Missouri flora website