Liatris cokeri
Liatris acidota
Coker's gayfeather, sandhill's blazing star, Sandhills gayfeather
Gulf Coast gayfeather, Gulf Coast or sharp gayfeather, sharp blazing star, sharp gayfeather
glabrous.
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).
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 or (ascending) 1–6(–10) mm.
0.
cylindro-turbinate, (7–)8–9 × 3.5–4 mm.
cylindro-turbinate, 6–7(–10) × ca. 3 mm.
4–7(–9);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
(2–)3–4(–5);
corolla tubes glabrous 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 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, racemiform to spiciform arrays (sometimes strongly to weakly secund, especially if branches reclining, internodes 1–5 mm).
in dense, spiciform arrays.
3–4(–5) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
4–4.5 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose.
globose.
usually globose to subglobose, sometimes ovoid to elongate.
= 20.
Liatris cokeri
Liatris acidota
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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