Liatris cokeri
Liatris glandulosa
Coker's gayfeather, sandhill's blazing star, Sandhills gayfeather
glandular blazing star, sticky gayfeather
glabrous.
stipitate-glandular.
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 linear-lanceolate, 60–110 × 1.5–4(–4.5) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced on distal 1/2 of stems, stipitate-glandular.
0 or (ascending) 1–6(–10) mm.
0.
cylindro-turbinate, (7–)8–9 × 3.5–4 mm.
cylindro-turbinate, 8–12 × 3–5 mm.
4–7(–9);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
3–4(–5);
corolla tubes glabrous or glabrate 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, (green, rarely purplish) oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-triangular, unequal, densely glandular (mixture of sessile-sunken and slightly elevated glands), margins without hyaline borders, apices broadly to narrowly acute or acuminate (sometimes with indurate mucros).
in dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays (sometimes strongly to weakly secund, especially if branches reclining, internodes 1–5 mm).
in dense, (cylindric) spiciform arrays.
3–4(–5) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
5–6 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.
globose.
subglobose to depressed-globose.
= 20.
Liatris cokeri
Liatris glandulosa
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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