It has been reported from every state east of the Mississippi River except Delaware, plus North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with isolated populations in Kansas and Texas.

[1][3] It prefers upland woods in poor, dry, often sandy soil.

[4] It has upright stalks of 20 centimetres (8 in) or sometimes taller, rising from a basal rosette of leaves.

The stalks are slender and branching, with small white flowers with 4 petals.

It prefers full or partial shade and dry or mesic conditions.