Liatris cokeri
Liatris cymosa
Coker's gayfeather, sandhill's blazing star, Sandhills gayfeather
Aggie-land gayfeather, branch blazing star, branch gayfeather
glabrous.
strigoso-puberulent.
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 1-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 80–120 × 2–5 mm, gradually reduced distally or abruptly reduced on distal 1/2 of stems, essentially glabrous (margins proximally piloso-ciliate).
0 or (ascending) 1–6(–10) mm.
20–70 mm (bracteate).
cylindro-turbinate, (7–)8–9 × 3.5–4 mm.
cylindro-campanulate, 14–17 × 8–11 mm.
4–7(–9);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
20–25;
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 5–7 series, broadly oblong-obovate (outer) to broadly oblong, strongly unequal, sparsely short-pilose, margins without hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices rounded, sometimes mucronate.
in dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays (sometimes strongly to weakly secund, especially if branches reclining, internodes 1–5 mm).
(2–20+) in open, cymiform arrays.
3–4(–5) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
6–7 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.
globose.
globose to elongate-globose.
Liatris cokeri
Liatris cymosa
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.)
Of conservation concern.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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