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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Liatris squarrulosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Read more about Southern Blazing-star at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
ID Notes: L. squarrulosa has barbellate bristles, spreading to distally reflexed (although sometimes erect) phyllaries in 4-5 unequal series, 11-26 florets per head, and heads smaller. This differs from L. squarrosa, which has plumose bristles, phyllaries usually erect (though sometimes spreading-reflexed on distal third) in 5-7 equal-subequal series, 23-45 florets per head, and heads larger. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris squarrulosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Liatris squarrulosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Liatris squarrulosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Liatris squarrulosa
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-010:
Liatris earlei FAMILY Asteraceae__
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria ruthii
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria shortii
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria tracyi
COMMON NAME:
Southern Blazing-star, Earle's Blazing-star, Appalachian Blazing-star
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Will Stuart wil_l_squarrulosa_1222
September Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_liatris_squarrulosa_4
October
Often more than 20 heads, sessile or stalked, each with 14-24 flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_liatris_squarrulosa4b
October
Peduncles usually 0, sometimes (ascending to spreading or deflexed) 2-8(-30)mm, per Flora of North America.
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Will Stuart wil_l_squarrulosa_1027
October Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Heads usually sessile, less commonly peduncles 1-8mm (rarely more), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Will Stuart wil_l_squarrulosa_170
October Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Phyllaries glabrous to puberulent or puberulent-hirtellous, outer us. reflexed, per Weakley's Flora.
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Will Stuart wil_l_squarrulosa_iph2069
October Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Habit. Often 4 feet tall or so, and rather weak stemmed, so leaning. — Will Stuart
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Will Stuart wil_l_squarrulosaiph2069b
October Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Leaves smooth, lanceolate, 4-14" long, 0.5-2" wide, reduced in size upward, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Liatris squarrulosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris squarrulosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Liatris squarrulosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Liatris squarrulosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Liatris squarrulosa
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-010:
Liatris earlei
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria ruthii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria shortii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Laciniaria tracyi
820
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: diabase barrens, other glades and barrens, prairies, longleaf pine sandhills, open woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish-blue
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Fall
Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p143
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p271-272
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p384
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p099
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p314
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p365
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p073
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