Liatris cymosa
Liatris ohlingerae
Aggie-land gayfeather, branch blazing star, branch gayfeather
Florida blazing star, Florida gayfeather, sandtorch, scrub blazing star
strigoso-puberulent.
minutely and closely villous-puberulent, glabrescent.
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).
basal and proximal cauline (usually withering before anthesis) 1-nerved, linear, 80–150 × 1–2(–2.5) mm, gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous or sparsely puberulent and soon glabrescent, gland-dotted.
20–70 mm (bracteate).
(spreading-ascending) 20–70 mm.
cylindro-campanulate, 14–17 × 8–11 mm.
hemispheric to campanulate or broadly turbinate, 17–23 × 15–20 mm.
20–25;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
± 20–30;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
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 6–7 series, oblong, strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (faintly purplish) hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices rounded to obtuse.
(2–20+) in open, cymiform arrays.
(1–30) in open, corymbiform to racemiform arrays.
6–7 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.
7–10 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose.
globose to elongate-globose.
nearly cylindric.
Liatris cymosa
Liatris ohlingerae
Of conservation concern.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Liatris ohlingerae grows in DeSoto, Highlands, and Polk counties, on Lake Wales Ridge. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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