Liatris savannensis

Kral & G. L. Nesom

Sida 20: 1574, fig. 1. 2003.

Common names: Savanna gayfeather
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 530. Mentioned on page 514, 516.

Plants (80–)90–130 cm. Corms globose, irregularly cylindric, narrowly ovoid, or fusiform and caudexlike. Stems glabrous (often sparsely sessile-glandular). Leaves: basal (often withering before flowering), 1- or 3–5-nerved, linear-elliptic, linear-spatulate, or linear-oblanceolate, (170–)200–400 × 3–10 mm, gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (proximal margins pilose-ciliate). Heads in dense, spiciform arrays. Peduncles 0 or (spreading-ascending) 1–2 mm. Involucres turbinate-campanulate, (7–)8–10 × (8–)9–11(–12) mm. Phyllaries in (3–)4(–5) series, ovate to oblong, obovate, or spatulate, weakly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, erose to lacerate, ciliolate, apices broadly rounded. Florets 9–17; corolla tubes pilose inside. Cypselae ca. 4 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.


Phenology: Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct(–Nov).
Habitat: Sandy pinelands, moist sites dominated by slash pine, sabal palmetto, or mixture of the two
Elevation: 0–30 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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