Liatris tenuifolia
Liatris tenuis
pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf blazing star, shortleaf gayfeather
gulf blazing star, Shinners' gayfeather
glabrous or sparsely pilose.
strigoso-puberulent.
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 1(–3)-nerved, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 120–250 × 2–3(–5) mm, abruptly reduced on distal 1/2–2/3 of stems, sparsely pilose (abaxial faces), gland-dotted.
(ascending) 1–7 mm.
0 or 1–5 mm.
turbinate-campanulate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm.
cylindro-campanulate, 10–13 × 5–6(–7) mm.
4–6;
corolla tubes glabrous inside.
10–12;
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 3–4(–5) series, outermost narrowly triangular, unequal, sparsely fine-pilose to glabrate, margins without hyaline borders, ciliate, apices (loosely divergent) acute to acuminate (innermost sometimes obtuse and short-acuminate).
in compact, racemiform arrays.
in loose, spiciform arrays (internodes 1–15 mm).
2.5–4 mm;
pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
4.2–4.5 mm;
pappi: lengths equaling corollas, bristles barbellate or proximally plumose.
globose.
globose to subglobose.
Liatris tenuifolia
Liatris tenuis
Liatris tenuis 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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