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|accepted_name=Stokesia
|accepted_authority=L’Héritier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sert. Angl.,
|place=27. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae;Stokesia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stokesia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Jonathan Stokes, 1755–1831, English physician and botanist
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 11, 67, 200
|treatment_page=page 201
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 2–5+ dm; perhaps rhizomatous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; proximal petiolate, blades ovate to lanceolate or lance-linear; distal ± sessile, blades ovate or elliptic to lanceolate or lance-linear, bases ± clasping, margins entire or spinose-toothed; all with apices rounded to acute, faces glabrous or glabrate, resin-gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> pseudo-radiant (see here at corollas), ± pedunculate, not individually bracteate; borne singly or in loose, ± corymbiform arrays 6–12 cm diam. <b>Involucres</b> ± hemispheric, 25–45 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 25–35+ in 5–7 series, the outer with appressed, ± chartaceous bases, distally ± foliaceous, margins pectinately spiny-toothed (at least at base), inner ± chartaceous throughout, mostly entire, faces ± tomentulose and resin-gland-dotted. <b>Florets</b> 12–35(–70+); corollas usually blue to purplish blue (rarely white or lilac), tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, lance-linear (in peripheral florets adaxial sinus much deeper than others and corollas zygomorphic, ± raylike or ligulelike, in central florets corollas ± actinomorphic). <b>Cypselae</b> ± columnar, 3–4-angled, glabrous; pappi caducous, of 4–5 scales. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Stokesia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=L’Héritier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sert. Angl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae
|genus=Stokesia
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