OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Liatris elegans var. elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris elegans var. elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Liatris elegans var. elegans

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Liatris elegans group (Astereae): taxonomic review (Nesom, 2021)

Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Liatris elegans var. flabellata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-013:

Liatris elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Laciniaria elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Laciniaria flabellata

 

COMMON NAME:
Common Elegant Blazing-star


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image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lael_001_lvd

        

image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

JK Marlow    jkm081009_097

October    Dorchester County    SC

Phyllaries pink to white, acute to acuminate and broadest above the middle, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

JK Marlow    jkm081009_113

October    Dorchester County    SC

Flowers whitish (1-3 per head), within showy, twisting, involucral bracts, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

JK Marlow    jkm081009_119

October    Dorchester County    SC

image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

JK Marlow    jkm081009_138

October    Dorchester County    SC

Lowest stem leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, 3-14cm long, 2-7mm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Liatris elegans var. elegans, Common Elegant Blazing-star

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_elegans_elegans_2

October        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Liatris elegans var. elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris elegans var. elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Liatris elegans var. elegans

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Liatris elegans group (Astereae): taxonomic review (Nesom, 2021)
Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Liatris elegans var. elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Liatris elegans var. flabellata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-013:
Liatris elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria elegans

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria flabellata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2748

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, {additional habitats}, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Whitish/ Pinkish/ Purplish
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene

 

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