824

Forb
Perennial

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish-blue
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 pycnostachya +   FAMILY Asteraceae__

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris pycnostachya +   FAMILY Asteraceae__