Liatris chapmanii
Liatris cokeri
Chapman's blazing star, Chapman's gayfeather
Coker's gayfeather, sandhill's blazing star, Sandhills gayfeather
hirtellous.
glabrous.
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, spatulate-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 40–150(–180) × 4–8(–11) mm, abruptly reduced (linear, 1–2 mm wide), then gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous or hirtellous (sometimes mostly along abaxial midveins), gland-dotted.
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, lance-linear to linear, 50–150 × 2–5 mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (proximal margins sparsely ciliate).
0.
0 or (ascending) 1–6(–10) mm.
cylindric, 8–12 × 3.5–5 mm.
cylindro-turbinate, (7–)8–9 × 3.5–4 mm.
3–4;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
4–7(–9);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
in 3(–4) series, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, unequal, usually glabrous, rarely minutely puberulent, margins with hyaline borders, apices acute to acuminate.
in 3–4 series, ovate-oblong, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate (inner 7.5–10 × 1–1.8 mm), strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (lacking at apices), ciliolate, apices (inner and middle, sometimes outer) rounded to blunt, involute-cuspidate to short-acuminate.
(appressed, overlapping) in dense, spiciform arrays.
in dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays (sometimes strongly to weakly secund, especially if branches reclining, internodes 1–5 mm).
(3–)4–6 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
3–4(–5) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
globose to elongate.
globose.
= 20.
Liatris chapmanii
Liatris cokeri
Pyne and Stucky noted that variants of Liatris cokeri (apparently intermediate toward L. virgata) occur on the coastal plain of North Carolina and South Carolina.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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