Liatris tenuis

Shinners

SouthW. Naturalist 4: 208. 1959.

Common names: Shinners’s gayfeather
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 523. Mentioned on page 515.
Revision as of 18:46, 24 September 2019 by FNA>Volume Importer

Plants 30–55 cm. Corms globose to subglobose. Stems strigoso-puberulent. Leaves: 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. Heads in loose, spiciform arrays (internodes 1–15 mm). Peduncles 0 or 1–5 mm. Involucres cylindro-campanulate, 10–13 × 5–6(–7) mm. Phyllaries 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). Florets 10–12; corolla tubes glabrous inside. Cypselae 4.2–4.5 mm; pappi: lengths equaling corollas, bristles barbellate or proximally plumose.


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

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La., Tex.

Discussion

Liatris tenuis is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Guy L. Nesom +
Shinners +
Shinners’s gayfeather +
La. +  and Tex. +
50–100 m +
Longleaf pine savannas, pine-hardwood edges, slopes, flats, uplands, near drainages, sands, sandy clays, fencerows, roadsides +
Flowering - Jun–Jul–Sep. +
SouthW. Naturalist +
Compositae +
Liatris tenuis +
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