Roadside, by field boundary fence, among grass and dicot weeds.
Notes:
Erect, slender root. Capitula erect. Phyllaries green (outer) or reddish (inner). Rays 1-1.7cm long, either uniformly dark red or with dark red basally and yellow distally, ± 3-lobed or 3-toothed. Disc dark red. Fairly common. From a wildflower seed sowing along the fenceline a year or two earlier.