Liatris ligulistylis (A. Nelson) K. Schumann (Q2614)

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Liatris ligulistylis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris
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Liatris ligulistylis (A. Nelson) K. Schumann
Liatris ligulistylis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris

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    taxon/id/Liatris ligulistylis (A. Nelson) K. Schumann
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    Liatris ligulistylis (A. Nelson) K. Schumann
    Liatris ligulistylis
    (A. Nelson) K. Schumann
    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 à style ligulé (French)
    meadow blazing-star (English)
    northern meadow blazing-star (English)
    northern plains blazing-star (English)
    Rocky Mountain blazing-star (English)
    strap-style gayfeather (English)
    northern plains gayfeather (English)
    button snakeroot (English)
    Northern Plains gayfeather (English)
    1 reference
    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Flowering Jul–Oct.
    prairies
    pine barrens
    clearings
    pine woods
    ridges
    lake shores
    depressions
    granite
    rocky slopes
    roadsides
    ditches
    railroads
    Plants 20–100 cm.
    Corms subglobose (often knotty, densely fibrous-rooted).
    Stems sparsely to densely puberulent, puberulent-villous, or strigoso-puberulent.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate to spatulate-lanceolate, 90–150 (–220) × 4–17 (–24) mm, gradually reduced distally to near midstem, then abruptly reduced, linear or narrowly lanceolate, ascending to nearly erect, bractlike, sparsely to densely puberulent, ± glanddotted.
    Heads (4–21) in open, racemiform arrays (terminal heads sometimes maturing first and larger).
    Peduncles usually (5–) 8–15 (–30) mm.
    Involucres campanulate to turbinate-campanulate, 10–15 × 13–18 mm.
    Phyllaries in (3–) 4–5 series, oblong-obovate to oblong-spatulate, strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (purple) hyaline borders, erose to lacerate or irregular, apices broadly rounded to truncate.
    corolla-tubes glabrous inside.
    Cypselae 5–7 mm;
    pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.