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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Liatris elegantula
|accepted_authority=(Greene) K. Schumann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Just’s Bot. Jahresber.
|place=29(1): 569. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|common_names=Greene’s elegant gayfeather
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lacinaria elegantula
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pittonia
|publication_place=4: 316. 1901 (as Laciniaria)
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liatris graminifolia var. elegantula
|authority=(Greene) Gaiser
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Liatris;Liatris elegantula
|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 elegantula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 516
|treatment_page=page 530
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>60–105 cm. <b>Corms</b> mostly globose. <b>Stems</b> glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline 1-nerved, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 80–210 × 2–5(–10) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous (sparsely piloso-ciliate along proximal margins), gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> in loose, racemiform arrays (internodes 2–14 mm). <b>Peduncles</b> 0 or (ascending) 2(–7) mm. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate, 6–8 × 5–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4(–5) series, mostly oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (0.2–0.4 mm wide), sometimes sparsely ciliolate, apices rounded. <b>Florets</b> (7–)8–11(–13); corolla tubes pilose inside. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.8–3.5(–3.8) mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Longleaf pine-scrub oak, pine, live oak-pine, deciduous oak-pine, deciduous flatwoods, sandhills, savanna edges, edges of cypress depressions, depression meadows, live oak-pine-palmetto hammocks, sandy clay or loam, rarely clay
|elevation=0–300(–500) m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.
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name=Liatris elegantula
|authority=(Greene) K. Schumann
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Liatris graminifolia var. elegantula
|basionyms=Lacinaria elegantula
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Longleaf pine-scrub oak, pine, live oak-pine, deciduous oak-pine, deciduous flatwoods, sandhills, savanna edges, edges of cypress depressions, depression meadows, live oak-pine-palmetto hammocks, sandy clay or loam, rarely clay
|elevation=0–300(–500) m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Just’s Bot. Jahresber.
|publication year=1903
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Liatris
|species=Liatris elegantula
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