Flora of North America species comparison

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Liatris pauciflora var. secunda
Photo is of parent taxon
Stems

minutely puberulent-hirtellous (hairs spreading to slightly deflexed).
Leaves

(and phyllaries) gland-dotted (each pit with a glandular hair).
Involucres

7–10(–14) × 3–5 mm.
Phyllaries

inner 10–13 × 2–3 mm, apices abruptly short-acuminate, mid and inner often apiculate to mucronulate.
Cypselae

4–5 mm.
2n

= 20.

Liatris pauciflora var. secunda
Phenology Flowering Aug–Sep(–Oct).
Habitat Longleaf pine savannas, longleaf pine-turkey oak, scrub oak, sand pine-evergreen oak scrub, pine-palmetto scrub, dunes, sand ridges, flats, woodland edges
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; NC; SC
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 528.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Liatris > Liatris pauciflora
Sibling taxa
L. pauciflora var. pauciflora
Synonyms L. secunda
Name authority (Elliott) D. B. Ward: Novon 14: 367. (2004)
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