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Liatris garberi
A. Gray
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Asteraceae
Garber's Gayfeather
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Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
20-80 cm.
Corms
elongated into rhizomes, irregularly shaped (sometimes with thickened, fibrous roots).
Stems
piloso-puberulent to hirsute.
Leaves:
basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 120-300 × 3-8 mm, gradually reduced distally to ± midstem, abruptly reduced to ± uniform bracts distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (margins sometimes sparsely ciliate).
Heads
in dense, spiciform arrays.
Peduncles
0 or 1-5(-10) mm.
Involucres
cylindro-campanulate, 8-10 × 4-5 mm.
Phyllaries
in 3-4(-5) series, ovate to oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, strongly unequal, usually essentially glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigose to pilosulous, margins with hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices acute (inner with slightly subterminal, `rolled´ apicula), ciliolate.
Florets
6-10; corolla tubes glabrous inside.
Cypselae
3-3.5 mm;
pappi:
lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.
2
n
= 20. Flowering Jul-Sep. Wet flats with palmetto and longleaf or slash pine, oak-palmetto, pine-live oak, grass-sedge bogs, sandy loam, sandy peat; 0-30 m; Fla.; West Indies (Bahamas).
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