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Liatris elegantula
(Greene) K. Schum.
Family:
Asteraceae
Greene's Elegant Gayfeather,
more...
grassleaf gayfeather
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FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
60-105 cm.
Corms
mostly globose.
Stems
glabrous.
Leaves:
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 80-210 × 2-5(-10) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (sparsely piloso-ciliate along proximal margins), gland-dotted.
Heads
in loose, racemiform arrays (internodes 2-14 mm).
Peduncles
0 or (ascending) 2(-7) mm.
Involucres
turbinate, 6-8 × 5-7 mm.
Phyllaries
in 3-4(-5) series, mostly oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (0.2-0.4 mm wide), sometimes sparsely ciliolate, apices rounded.
Florets
(7-)8-11(-13); corolla tubes pilose inside.
Cypselae
2.8-3.5(-3.8) mm;
pappi:
lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
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n
= 20. Flowering Aug-Oct(-Nov). Longleaf pine-scrub oak, pine, live oak-pine, deciduous oak-pine, deciduous flatwoods, sandhills, savanna edges, edges of cypress depressions, depression meadows, live oak-pine-palmetto hammocks, sandy clay or loam, rarely clay; 0-300(-500) m; Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss.
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