Liatris elegans |
Liatris punctata |
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elegant gayfeather, pinkscale blazing star, pinkscale gayfeather |
dotted blazing star, dotted gayfeather, narrow-leaf blazingstar, plains gayfeather |
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Habit | Plants 30–120 cm. | Plants 15–85 cm. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | puberulent to hirsute-puberulent. |
glabrous. |
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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, 50–140 × 1–7 mm, gradually or little reduced distally, essentially glabrous or sparsely piloso-hirsutulous, gland-dotted (margins sometimes ciliate). |
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Peduncles | usually 0, sometimes 1–5(–10) mm. |
0 or very rarely 1–2 mm. |
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Involucres | turbinate-cylindric, 12–20 × 4–6 mm. |
campanulate-cylindric, 7–15 × (4–)5–7 mm. |
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Florets | 4–5; corolla tubes glabrous inside. |
3–8; 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 3–6 series, mostly oblong-obovate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins without hyaline borders, sometimes ciliate, apices acute, acute-acuminate, obtuse, rounded, or rounded-truncate (often with indurate apicula or mucros, lateral veins usually not evident beyond middle or at least on distal 1/3). |
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Heads | in dense, spiciform arrays. |
in dense to loose, spiciform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3.5–5(–6) mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose. |
(5.5–)6–8.5 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose. |
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Corms | depressed-globose or globose to napiform. |
globose to depressed-globose or elongate, sometimes becoming simple or branched rhizomes. |
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Liatris elegans |
Liatris punctata |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; OK; SC; TX
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AR; CO; IA; IL; KS; LA; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NM; OH; OK; SD; TX; WI; WY; AB; MB; SK; n Mexico
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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.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (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. 519. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Staehelina elegans | Lacinaria punctata | ||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Walter) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 91. (1803) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 306, plate 105. (1833) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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