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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Liatris gracilis
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=2: 508. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|common_names=Slender gayfeather
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lacinaria gracilis
|authority=(Pursh) Kuntze
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lacinaria laxa
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Liatris;Liatris gracilis
|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 gracilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 515, 516
|treatment_page=page 531
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>20–100 cm. <b>Corms</b> globose to subglobose. <b>Stems</b> puberulent to piloso- or strigoso-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, usually linear to linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly spatulate, 50–150 × 2–8(–10) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced on distal 1/2–1/3 of stems, essentially glabrous (proximal margins ciliate). <b>Heads</b> in loose, racemiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 0 or (usually straight, stiffly spreading to ascending) 2–10(–12) mm. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, (4–)4.5–6(–7) × 3–4(–5) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3(–4) series, (green to purple) ovate to oblong, strongly to weakly unequal, sparsely puberulent, margins with hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices rounded to truncate. <b>Florets</b> 3–6(–9); corolla tubes pilose inside. <b>Cypselae</b> 3–3.5 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Longleaf pine, slash pine, palmetto-scrub oak, turkey oak-bluejack oak, sand scrub, sand ridges, uplands, boggy flatwoods, sandy peat, fencerows, roadsides, woodland edges
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Plants of <i>Liatris gracilis</i> from the panhandle of Florida and the southern tier of Alabama counties tend to have sharply acute phyllaries; intermediates are often encountered.</p>
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name=Liatris gracilis
|author=
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lacinaria gracilis;Lacinaria laxa
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Longleaf pine, slash pine, palmetto-scrub oak, turkey oak-bluejack oak, sand scrub, sand ridges, uplands, boggy flatwoods, sandy peat, fencerows, roadsides, woodland edges
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=1813
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1350.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Liatris
|species=Liatris gracilis
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