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|accepted_name=Liatris acidota
|accepted_authority=Engelmann & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|place=5: 218. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|common_names=Gulf Coast or sharp gayfeather
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lacinaria acidota
|authority=(Engelmann & A. Gray) Kuntze
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liatris acidota var. vernalis
|authority=Engelmann & A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Liatris;Liatris acidota
|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 acidota]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 513, 514
|treatment_page=page 525
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>20–90(–130) cm. <b>Corms</b> usually globose to subglobose, sometimes ovoid to elongate. <b>Stems</b> glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline 3–5-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 100–400 × 1–3(–5) mm, gradually reduced distally or abruptly on distal 1/2 of stems, essentially glabrous (bases of basal usually fibrous-persistent). <b>Heads</b> in dense, spiciform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-turbinate, 6–7(–10) × ca. 3 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, (often purple) oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices (erect or ± appressed) acuminate to acute. <b>Florets</b> (2–)3–4(–5); corolla tubes glabrous inside. <b>Cypselae</b> 4–4.5 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate to subplumose. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Coastal prairies, prairie remnants, wet pine flats, savannas, oak-pine, ditches, roadsides, railroads, sand, sandy and silty loams, clays
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
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name=Liatris acidota
|author=
|authority=Engelmann & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lacinaria acidota;Liatris acidota var. vernalis
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Coastal prairies, prairie remnants, wet pine flats, savannas, oak-pine, ditches, roadsides, railroads, sand, sandy and silty loams, clays
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1845
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Liatris
|species=Liatris acidota
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