Liatris pycnostachya Michaux (Q2615)

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

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    taxon/id/Liatris pycnostachya Michaux
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    Liatris pycnostachya Michaux
    Liatris pycnostachya
    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 à épi dense (French)
    prairie blazing-star (English)
    thick-spike blazing-star (English)
    prairie gayfeather (English)
    cattail gayfeather (English)
    Kansas gayfeather (English)
    Prairie or cattail gayfeather (English)
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    Rousseau, C. 1971. Une classification de la flore synanthropique du Québec et de l'Ontario II. Liste des espèces. Naturaliste canadien 98: 697-730.
    Plants (40–) 60–120 (–180) cm.
    Corms globose, sometimes becoming elongate rhizomes.
    Stems glabrous or densely piloso-puberulent.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 3–5-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate, 110–220 × 4–10 (–12) mm, gradually then abruptly reduced distally (bractlike proximal to heads), essentially glabrous or sparsely pilose to densely piloso-puberulent, weakly glanddotted (bases of basal usually fibrous-persistent).
    Heads in dense, spiciform arrays.
    Peduncles usually 0, rarely (spreading to ascending) 1–2 mm.
    Involucres campanulate-cylindric, 7–9 (–10) × 3.5–5 mm.
    Phyllaries (reflexed or curving-spreading) in 4–5 series, oblong-lanceolate, unequal, essentially glabrous or ± pilose, margins with hyaline borders, sometimes ciliate, apices usually acute to acute-acuminate (sometimes distally dilated, nearly petaloid).
    Florets (4–) 5–8;
    corolla-tubes glabrous inside.
    Cypselae 3.8–4.5 (–5) mm;
    pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.