Liatris tenuifolia
Liatris savannensis
pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf blazing star, shortleaf gayfeather
savanna blazing star, savanna gayfeather
glabrous or sparsely pilose.
glabrous (often sparsely sessile-glandular).
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 (often withering before flowering), 1- or 3–5-nerved, linear-elliptic, linear-spatulate, or linear-oblanceolate, (170–)200–400 × 3–10 mm, gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (proximal margins pilose-ciliate).
(ascending) 1–7 mm.
0 or (spreading-ascending) 1–2 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, (7–)8–10 × (8–)9–11(–12) mm.
4–6;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
9–17;
corolla tubes pilose 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 (3–)4(–5) series, ovate to oblong, obovate, or spatulate, weakly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, erose to lacerate, ciliolate, apices broadly rounded.
in compact, racemiform arrays.
in dense, spiciform arrays.
2.5–4 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
ca. 4 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
globose.
globose, irregularly cylindric, narrowly ovoid, or fusiform and caudexlike.
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