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Liatris tenuis
Shinners
Family:
Asteraceae
Gulf Gayfeather
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
30-55 cm.
Corms
globose to subglobose.
Stems
strigoso-puberulent.
Leaves:
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.
Heads
in loose, spiciform arrays (internodes 1-15 mm).
Peduncles
0 or 1-5 mm.
Involucres
cylindro-campanulate, 10-13 × 5-6(-7) mm.
Phyllaries
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).
Florets
10-12; corolla tubes glabrous inside.
Cypselae
4.2-4.5 mm;
pappi:
lengths equaling corollas, bristles barbellate or proximally plumose.
Flowering (Jun-)Jul-Sep. Longleaf pine savannas, pine-hardwood edges, slopes, flats, uplands, near drainages, sands, sandy clays, fencerows, roadsides; 50-100 m; La., Tex.
Liatris tenuis
is in the Center for Plant Conservation´s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
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