Liatris elegans |
Liatris glandulosa |
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elegant gayfeather, pinkscale blazing star, pinkscale gayfeather |
glandular blazing star, sticky gayfeather |
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Habit | Plants 30–120 cm. | Plants 30–60 cm. | ||||||||||||
Stems | puberulent to hirsute-puberulent. |
stipitate-glandular. |
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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, linear to linear-lanceolate, 60–110 × 1.5–4(–4.5) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced on distal 1/2 of stems, stipitate-glandular. |
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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. |
cylindro-turbinate, 8–12 × 3–5 mm. |
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Florets | 4–5; corolla tubes glabrous inside. |
3–4(–5); corolla tubes glabrous or glabrate 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, (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). |
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Heads | in dense, spiciform arrays. |
in dense, (cylindric) spiciform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3.5–5(–6) mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose. |
5–6 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose. |
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Corms | depressed-globose or globose to napiform. |
subglobose to depressed-globose. |
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2n | = 20. |
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Liatris elegans |
Liatris glandulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Limestone outcrops, gentle slopes or flats, shallow gravelly soils over limestone, usually with juniper and yucca | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 100–300 m (300–1000 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; SC; TX
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TX |
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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. 521. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Staehelina elegans | |||||||||||||
Name authority | (Walter) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 91. (1803) | G. L. Nesom & O’Kennon: Sida 19: 778, figs. 3, 4. (2001) | ||||||||||||
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