Liatris elegantula
Liatris patens
Greene's elegant gayfeather, shaggy blazing star
Georgia gayfeather, spreading blazing star, spreading gayfeather
glabrous.
moderately to densely strigoso-hirtellous.
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 1-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 90–180 × 2–4(–7) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (proximal margins sparsely ciliate).
0 or (ascending) 2(–7) mm.
(divergent-ascending, initially diverging at angles of 45–90°) 10–25(–30) mm.
turbinate, 6–8 × 5–7 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, (5–)6–7.5 × 5–7 mm.
(7–)8–11(–13);
corolla tubes pilose inside.
7–12;
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 (2–)3–4(–5) series, broadly obovate (outer) to broadly oblong-obovate, strongly unequal, sparsely strigoso-villous (outer) or essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, sometimes slightly erose, usually densely ciliate, apices rounded to subtruncate.
in loose, racemiform arrays (internodes 2–14 mm).
in loose, (columnar) racemiform arrays.
2.8–3.5(–3.8) mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
2.5–2.8 mm;
pappi: lengths equaling or surpassing corollas, bristles barbellate.
mostly globose.
globose to depressed-globose.
= 20.
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