Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3048

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in GA & NC)

Look for it in sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Liatris secunda   FAMILY Asteraceae__

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Liatris pauciflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-30-008:
 Liatris secunda   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

COMMON NAME:
 Sandhills Blazing-star, One-sided Blazing-star

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image of Liatris secunda, Sandhills Blazing-star, One-sided Blazing-star

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_liatris_secunda1

August    Richmond County    NC

Flower heads in a dense spike or raceme, oft 1-sided. Involucres cone-shaped, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.