Liatris aspera Michaux (Q2611)

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Liatris aspera is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris
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Liatris aspera Michaux
Liatris aspera is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris

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    taxon/id/Liatris aspera Michaux
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    Liatris aspera Michaux
    Liatris aspera
    Michaux
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    liatris rugueux (French)
    rough blazing-star (English)
    tall blazing-star (English)
    rough gayfeather (English)
    tall gayfeather (English)
    lacerate blazing-star (English)
    Rough gayfeather (English)
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2003. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the provincially and nationally rare native plants in Saskatchewan. University of Saskatchewan, University Extension Press.
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    Flowering Aug–Sep(–Oct).
    prairies
    barrens
    old fields
    sand dunes
    ridges
    fields
    stream bottoms
    sandstone outcrops
    limestone ridges
    oak-juniper
    oak-pine woodlands
    silt loam
    50–500(–900) m
    Plants 30–180 cm.
    Stems hispidulous-puberulent.
    Leaves: basal (usually withering before flowering) and proximal cauline 1-nerved, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic or lanceolate-spatulate to linear-lanceolate, 80–250 × (4–) 6–25 mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous or sparsely or densely puberulent-hispidulous, ± glanddotted (distal especially).
    Heads in loose, spiciform arrays.
    Peduncles 0 or (ascending to spreading or deflexed) 1–5 (–10) mm.
    Involucres campanulate-hemispheric to turbinate-campanulate, (9–) 10–16 × 10–20 mm.
    Phyllaries usually in 4–5 series, (outer or outer and middle usually reflexed) broadly obovate to oblong-spatulate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with relatively broad, whitish-hyaline, irregular to erose or lacerate borders (especially on the distal 1/3), strongly bullate (with a sharp, low, rounded buttress delimiting the hyaline border), apices usually rounded to subtruncate.
    Florets (14–) 18–24 (–30);
    corolla-tubes pilose inside.
    Cypselae (3.5–) 4.5–6 mm;
    pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.