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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Liatris tenuis
|accepted_authority=Shinners
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=SouthW. Naturalist
|place=4: 208. 1959
|year=1959
}}
|common_names=Shinners’s gayfeather
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Liatris;Liatris tenuis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Liatris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Liatris tenuis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 515
|treatment_page=page 523
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>30–55 cm. <b>Corms</b> globose to subglobose. <b>Stems</b> strigoso-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline 1(–3)-nerved, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 120–250 × 2–3(–5) mm, abruptly reduced on distal 1/2–2/3 of stems, sparsely pilose (abaxial faces), gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> in loose, spiciform arrays (internodes 1–15 mm). <b>Peduncles</b> 0 or 1–5 mm. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, 10–13 × 5–6(–7) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4(–5) series, outermost narrowly triangular, unequal, sparsely fine-pilose to glabrate, margins without hyaline borders, ciliate, apices (loosely divergent) acute to acuminate (innermost sometimes obtuse and short-acuminate). <b>Florets</b> 10–12; corolla tubes glabrous inside. <b>Cypselae</b> 4.2–4.5 mm; pappi: lengths equaling corollas, bristles barbellate or proximally plumose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Longleaf pine savannas, pine-hardwood edges, slopes, flats, uplands, near drainages, sands, sandy clays, fencerows, roadsides
|elevation=50–100 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Liatris tenuis</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Liatris tenuis
|author=
|authority=Shinners
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Longleaf pine savannas, pine-hardwood edges, slopes, flats, uplands, near drainages, sands, sandy clays, fencerows, roadsides
|elevation=50–100 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=SouthW. Naturalist
|publication year=1959
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Liatris
|species=Liatris tenuis
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