Liatris pilosa (Aiton) Willdenow (Q2613)

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Liatris pilosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris
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Liatris pilosa (Aiton) Willdenow
Liatris pilosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris

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    taxon/id/Liatris pilosa (Aiton) Willdenow
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    Liatris pilosa (Aiton) Willdenow
    Liatris pilosa
    (Aiton) Willdenow
    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
    grass-leaved blazing-star (English)
    grass-leaved gayfeather (English)
    Grass-leaf gayfeather (English)
    Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct(–Nov).
    old fields
    pine barrens
    oak-pine sandhills
    openings
    oak-hickory woods
    tidal marsh edges
    sandy fields
    dune hollows
    wet sand
    beaches
    tidal marshes
    sandy clay-loam
    (0–)10–500 m
    Plants 40–120 cm.
    Stems glabrous or sparsely to moderately pilose distally or throughout.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 60–170 (–200) × 2–7 (–11) mm, abruptly to gradually reduced distally (becoming linear, spreading-ascending), essentially glabrous or sparsely pilose (abaxially), glanddotted (proximal margins piloso-ciliate).
    Heads in loose to dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays (internodes 1–7 mm).
    Peduncles 0 or (ascending) 1–10 (–80) mm.
    Involucres turbinate to campanulate-cylindric, (7–) 8–10 × 5–6 mm.
    Phyllaries in (3–) 4–5 (–6) series, oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (0.2–0.4 mm wide), erose to lacerate, ciliolate, apices usually rounded, rarely acute.
    Florets (6–) 7–12 (–13, mostly 9–12 in Del. and N.J.);
    corolla-tubes pilose inside.
    Cypselae (2.5–) 3–4 mm;
    pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.