Flora of North America species comparison

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Liatris elegans var. carizzana
Photo is of parent taxon

pinkscale blazing star
Corollas

creamy white.
Phyllaries

apices petaloid, blue, lavender, magenta, or pink, elongate and strongly recurving, petaloid portions short relative to herbaceous bases.
Heads

crowded.
Corms

elongate, tapering (± globose s of colorado river in bastrop and caldwell counties).

Liatris elegans var. carizzana
Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Sandy openings, roadsides, dunes, post oak, live oak
Elevation 0–50 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 522.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris > Liatris elegans
Sibling taxa
L. elegans var. bridgesii, L. elegans var. elegans, L. elegans var. kralii
Name authority Gaiser: Rhodora 48: 344. (1946)
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