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Liatris patens
Nesom & Kral
Family:
Asteraceae
Georgia Gayfeather,
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georgia blazing star
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
35-95 cm.
Corms
globose to depressed-globose.
Stems
moderately to densely strigoso-hirtellous.
Leaves:
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 90-180 × 2-4(-7) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (proximal margins sparsely ciliate).
Heads
in loose, (columnar) racemiform arrays.
Peduncles
(divergent-ascending, initially diverging at angles of 45-90°) 10-25(-30) mm.
Involucres
turbinate-campanulate, (5-)6-7.5 × 5-7 mm.
Phyllaries
in (2-)3-4(-5) series, broadly obovate (outer) to broadly oblong-obovate, strongly unequal, sparsely strigoso-villous (outer) or essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, sometimes slightly erose, usually densely ciliate, apices rounded to subtruncate.
Florets
7-12; corolla tubes pilose inside.
Cypselae
2.5-2.8 mm;
pappi:
lengths equaling or surpassing corollas, bristles barbellate. Flowering Sep-Nov. Sandy pinelands, usually with longleaf pine or slash pine, pine-palmetto flats; 0-50 m; Fla., Ga., S.C.
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