Liatris cymosa
Liatris savannensis
Aggie-land gayfeather, branch blazing star, branch gayfeather
savanna blazing star, savanna gayfeather
strigoso-puberulent.
glabrous (often sparsely sessile-glandular).
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 (often withering before flowering), 1- or 3–5-nerved, linear-elliptic, linear-spatulate, or linear-oblanceolate, (170–)200–400 × 3–10 mm, gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (proximal margins pilose-ciliate).
20–70 mm (bracteate).
0 or (spreading-ascending) 1–2 mm.
cylindro-campanulate, 14–17 × 8–11 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, (7–)8–10 × (8–)9–11(–12) mm.
20–25;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
9–17;
corolla tubes pilose 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 (3–)4(–5) series, ovate to oblong, obovate, or spatulate, weakly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, erose to lacerate, ciliolate, apices broadly rounded.
(2–20+) in open, cymiform arrays.
in dense, spiciform arrays.
6–7 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.
ca. 4 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
globose to elongate-globose.
globose, irregularly cylindric, narrowly ovoid, or fusiform and caudexlike.
Liatris cymosa
Liatris savannensis
Of conservation concern.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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