Liatris pauciflora var. pauciflora

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 527.

Stems usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hirtellous. Leaves (and phyllaries) not or weakly glanddotted. Involucres 11–15 × 4–7 mm. Phyllaries: inner (9–) 10–13 × 2.5–3.8 mm, apices acute (without mucros or apicula). Cypselae 3–4.5 mm. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering Aug–Oct.
Habitat: Pine flatwoods, longleaf pine-turkey oak, scrub oak, sandy peat, sand, ridges, fields, moist swales
Elevation: 0–20 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

None.

"barbellate" is not a number."fine" is not a number.

not tailed +, truncate +, rounded +  and obtuse +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually terete +  and clavate +
racemiform +  and spiciform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
decurrent +
not enlarged +
5-nerved +, 3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
dissected +, lobed +, toothed +  and entire +
mostly linear;ovatelanceolate +
papillate +  and rugose +
(4-)5-angled;10-ribbed +
linear-clavate +
white +, usually lavender +  and dark magenta or pinkish purple +
usually hirsutulous +  and hirtellous-pilose +
prismatic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Fla. +  and Ga. +
0–20 m +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Pine flatwoods, longleaf pine-turkey oak, scrub oak, sandy peat, sand, ridges, fields, moist swales +
in usually determinate , rarely indeterminate , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
10mm +  and 13mm +
2.5mm +  and 3.8mm +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
cauline +, proximal +  and basal +
glabrous +  and hispidulous-hirtellous +
narrowly oblanceolate;linear-oblanceolate +
reduced +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
lanceolate +  and lance-linear +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering Aug–Oct. +
18 +  and 40 +
Fl. Amer. Sept. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
conic;spheric;usually flat;convex +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
hirtellous +  and glabrous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +
papillate +
Compositae +
Liatris pauciflora var. pauciflora +
Liatris pauciflora +
variety +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (180 cm1,800 mm <br />1.8 m <br />) +