Although it is not considered seriously threatened due to a large number of sites in some of its range, it is often locally endangered and possibly extirpated in the south of its range.

Eurybia chlorolepis is reaches 80 cm (32 inches) tall and spreads by means of underground rhizomes.

One plant will produce up to 25 flower heads in a flat-topped array.

[3] Eurybia chlorolepsis is present in the southern range of the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States.

It grows from western Virginia and southern West Virginia in the north, south through eastern Tennessee and the western Carolinas to the northeastern corner of Georgia.