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Liatris spicata var. savannensis
(Kral & Nesom) D. B. Ward
Family:
Asteraceae
savanna gayfeather
[
Liatris savannensis
Kral & Nesom]
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FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
(80-)90-130 cm.
Corms
globose, irregularly cylindric, narrowly ovoid, or fusiform and caudexlike.
Stems
glabrous (often sparsely sessile-glandular).
Leaves:
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).
Heads
in dense, spiciform arrays.
Peduncles
0 or (spreading-ascending) 1-2 mm.
Involucres
turbinate-campanulate, (7-)8-10 × (8-)9-11(-12) mm.
Phyllaries
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.
Florets
9-17; corolla tubes pilose inside.
Cypselae
ca. 4 mm;
pappi:
lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate. Flowering (Aug-)Sep-Oct(-Nov). Sandy pinelands, moist sites dominated by slash pine, sabal palmetto, or mixture of the two; 0-30 m; Fla.
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