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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Liatris elegans var. elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lael_001_lvd
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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).
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm081009_119
October Dorchester County SC
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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).
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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
2748
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, flatwoods, cutover pine sites, open oak-pine woodlands, sandy fields, roadsides, ditches, other open disturbed 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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p190
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p120
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p283
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p338
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p382
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p158
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p108
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p097
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