Liatris tenuifolia
Liatris ohlingerae
pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf blazing star, shortleaf gayfeather
Florida blazing star, Florida gayfeather, sandtorch, scrub blazing star
glabrous or sparsely pilose.
minutely and closely villous-puberulent, glabrescent.
basal and proximal cauline (arising from separated nodes) 1-nerved, linear to linear-lanceolate, 100–300 × 1–2(–2.5) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (proximal margins sometimes ciliate).
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.
(ascending) 1–7 mm.
(spreading-ascending) 20–70 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm.
hemispheric to campanulate or broadly turbinate, 17–23 × 15–20 mm.
4–6;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
± 20–30;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
in 2–3(–4) series, lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, apices usually rounded-retuse and minutely involute-cuspidate to apiculate.
in 6–7 series, oblong, strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (faintly purplish) hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices rounded to obtuse.
in compact, racemiform arrays.
(1–30) in open, corymbiform to racemiform arrays.
2.5–4 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
7–10 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose.
globose.
nearly cylindric.
Liatris tenuifolia
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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