The hairy leaves are up to 7 centimeters in length, the lowest ones largest and sometimes lyrate (lyre-shaped).

[2] The largest population is in Lawrence County, where thousands of plants grow in a Nature Conservancy preserve.

[1] The cedar glade is an endangered habitat type that now exists as remnants within stretches of degraded or improperly managed territory.

Historically, the glades were maintained naturally as open areas in otherwise brushy woodlands, with disturbances such as wildfire or the activity of bison[2] preventing the succession of woody vegetation into the open areas.

[2] There are only a few populations of the plant remaining, and these are persisting in small stretches of land that are no longer part of the original pristine cedar glade ecosystem, or are in cedar glades that are degrading in quality.