Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Liatris elegans var. elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris elegans var. elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Liatris elegans var. flabellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-013:
Liatris elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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.
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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.
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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.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_elegans_elegans_2
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Liatris elegans var. elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris elegans var. elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Liatris elegans var. flabellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-30-013:
Liatris elegans
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
2748
Forb
Perennial
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - SC
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Look for it in sandhills, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Whitish/ Pinkish/ Purplish
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Fall
Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p190
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p120
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p283
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p382
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p158
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p108