826

Forb
Perennial

Native

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p187

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

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

PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liatris spp.   FAMILY Asteraceae__

VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-30-000:
Liatris spp.   FAMILY Asteraceae__