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Greene's elegant gayfeather, shaggy blazing star
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| Plants 60–105 cm. |
glabrous. |
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 80–210 × 2–5(–10) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (sparsely piloso-ciliate along proximal margins), gland-dotted. |
0 or (ascending) 2(–7) mm. |
turbinate, 6–8 × 5–7 mm. |
(7–)8–11(–13); corolla tubes pilose inside. |
in 3–4(–5) series, mostly oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (0.2–0.4 mm wide), sometimes sparsely ciliolate, apices rounded. |
in loose, racemiform arrays (internodes 2–14 mm). |
2.8–3.5(–3.8) mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate. |
mostly globose. |
= 20. |
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| Flowering Aug–Oct(–Nov). |
| Longleaf pine-scrub oak, pine, live oak-pine, deciduous oak-pine, deciduous flatwoods, sandhills, savanna edges, edges of cypress depressions, depression meadows, live oak-pine-palmetto hammocks, sandy clay or loam, rarely clay |
| 0–300(–500) m (0–1000(–1600) ft) |
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AL; FL; GA; MS
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| FNA vol. 21, p. 530. |
| Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris |
L. acidota, L. aestivalis, L. aspera, L. bracteata, L. chapmanii, L. cokeri, L. compacta, L. cylindracea, L. cymosa, L. elegans, L. garberi, L. gholsonii, L. glandulosa, L. gracilis, L. helleri, L. hirsuta, L. laevigata, L. lancifolia, L. ligulistylis, L. microcephala, L. ohlingerae, L. oligocephala, L. patens, L. pauciflora, L. pilosa, L. provincialis, L. punctata, L. pycnostachya, L. savannensis, L. scariosa, L. spicata, L. squarrosa, L. squarrulosa, L. tenuifolia, L. tenuis, L. virgata |
| Lacinaria elegantula, L. graminifolia var. elegantula |
| (Greene) K. Schumann: Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 29(1): 569. (1903) |
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