Liatris punctata Hooker (Q2617)

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Liatris punctata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris
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Liatris punctata Hooker
Liatris punctata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Liatris

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    Liatris punctata Hooker
    Liatris punctata
    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
    dotted blazing-star (English)
    plains blazing-star (English)
    dotted gayfeather (English)
    plains gayfeather (English)
    liatris ponctué (French)
    Plains or dotted gayfeather (English)
    n Mexico
    Plants 15–85 cm.
    Corms globose to depressed-globose or elongate, sometimes becoming simple or branched rhizomes.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, linear, 50–140 × 1–7 mm, gradually or little reduced distally, essentially glabrous or sparsely piloso-hirsutulous, glanddotted (margins sometimes ciliate).
    Involucres campanulate-cylindric, 7–15 × (4–) 5–7 mm.
    Peduncles 0 or very rarely 1–2 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–6 series, mostly oblong-obovate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins without hyaline borders, sometimes ciliate, apices acute, acute-acuminate, obtuse, rounded, or rounded-truncate (often with indurate apicula or mucros, lateral-veins usually not evident beyond middle or at least on distal 1/3).
    Florets 3–8;
    corolla-tubes glabrous inside.
    Cypselae (5.5–) 6–8.5 mm;
    pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.