Liatris elegantula
Liatris ohlingerae
Greene's elegant gayfeather, shaggy blazing star
Florida blazing star, Florida gayfeather, sandtorch, scrub blazing star
glabrous.
minutely and closely villous-puberulent, glabrescent.
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.
basal and proximal cauline (usually withering before anthesis) 1-nerved, linear, 80–150 × 1–2(–2.5) mm, gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous or sparsely puberulent and soon glabrescent, gland-dotted.
0 or (ascending) 2(–7) mm.
(spreading-ascending) 20–70 mm.
turbinate, 6–8 × 5–7 mm.
hemispheric to campanulate or broadly turbinate, 17–23 × 15–20 mm.
(7–)8–11(–13);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
± 20–30;
corolla tubes glabrous 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 6–7 series, oblong, strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (faintly purplish) hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices rounded to obtuse.
in loose, racemiform arrays (internodes 2–14 mm).
(1–30) in open, corymbiform to racemiform arrays.
2.8–3.5(–3.8) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
7–10 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose.
mostly globose.
nearly cylindric.
= 20.
Liatris elegantula
Liatris ohlingerae
Liatris ohlingerae grows in DeSoto, Highlands, and Polk counties, on Lake Wales Ridge. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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