Liatris acidota
Gulf Coast gayfeather, Gulf Coast or sharp gayfeather, sharp blazing star, sharp gayfeather
glabrous.
basal and proximal cauline 3–5-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 100–400 × 1–3(–5) mm, gradually reduced distally or abruptly on distal 1/2 of stems, essentially glabrous (bases of basal usually fibrous-persistent).
0.
cylindro-turbinate, 6–7(–10) × ca. 3 mm.
(2–)3–4(–5);
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
in 3–4 series, (often purple) oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices (erect or ± appressed) acuminate to acute.
in dense, spiciform arrays.
4–4.5 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose.
usually globose to subglobose, sometimes ovoid to elongate.
= 20.
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