Liatris elegans |
Liatris chapmanii |
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elegant gayfeather, pinkscale blazing star, pinkscale gayfeather |
Chapman's blazing star, Chapman's gayfeather |
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Habit | Plants 30–120 cm. | Plants 35–75(–150) cm. | ||||||||||||
Stems | puberulent to hirsute-puberulent. |
hirtellous. |
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Leaves | (basal on relatively distant internodes usually withering before flowering) proximal cauline 1-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 60–200(–300) × 3–8 mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally (becoming slightly to strongly deflexed), essentially glabrous or sparsely puberulent, gland-dotted. |
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, spatulate-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 40–150(–180) × 4–8(–11) mm, abruptly reduced (linear, 1–2 mm wide), then gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous or hirtellous (sometimes mostly along abaxial midveins), gland-dotted. |
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Peduncles | usually 0, sometimes 1–5(–10) mm. |
0. |
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Involucres | turbinate-cylindric, 12–20 × 4–6 mm. |
cylindric, 8–12 × 3.5–5 mm. |
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Florets | 4–5; corolla tubes glabrous inside. |
3–4; corolla tubes glabrous inside. |
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Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, narrowly lanceolate-triangular, unequal, strigose to strigoso-hispid, margins with hyaline borders, apices (at least inner) prolonged, spreading, ± dilated, petaloid (pink, purplish, white, or yellow). |
in 3(–4) series, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, unequal, usually glabrous, rarely minutely puberulent, margins with hyaline borders, apices acute to acuminate. |
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Heads | in dense, spiciform arrays. |
(appressed, overlapping) in dense, spiciform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3.5–5(–6) mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose. |
(3–)4–6 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate. |
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Corms | depressed-globose or globose to napiform. |
globose to elongate. |
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2n | = 20. |
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Liatris elegans |
Liatris chapmanii |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Dunes, beach strands, sand ridges, fields, roadsides, longleaf pine savannas, longleaf pine-turkey oak, turkey oak, evergreen oak-sand pine-scrub, scrub with Ceratiola and Pinus clausa | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–50 m (0–200 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; SC; TX
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AL; FL; GA
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). Variety elegans extends across the geographic range of the species; the other three varieties form local enclaves essentially imbedded within var. elegans and sporadically intergrading with it at points of contact (see further comments under 10d. var. kralii). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 521. | FNA vol. 21, p. 526. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Staehelina elegans | Lacinaria chapmanii | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (Walter) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 91. (1803) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 502. (1843) | ||||||||||||
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