Liatris cokeri
Coker's gayfeather, sandhill's blazing star, Sandhills gayfeather
glabrous.
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 or (ascending) 1–6(–10) mm.
cylindro-turbinate, (7–)8–9 × 3.5–4 mm.
4–7(–9);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
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.
in dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays (sometimes strongly to weakly secund, especially if branches reclining, internodes 1–5 mm).
3–4(–5) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
globose.
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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