Liatris Blazing-Star

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Liatris Blazing-Star

***** Location: North America
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Liatris
common names:
Blazing-star, Gay-feather or Button snakeroot

is a genus of ornamental plants in the Asteraceae family, native to North America, Mexico, and the Bahamas. These plants are used as a popular summer flowers for bouquets.

They are perennials, surviving the winter in the form of corms.


Liatris spicata

Liatris species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia gloriosa, Schinia sanguinea (both of which feed exclusively on the genus), Schinia tertia and Schinia trifascia.

Classification
Liatris is in the tribe Eupatorieae of the aster family. Like other members of this tribe, the flower heads have disc florets and no ray florets. Liatris is in the subtribe Liatrinae along with, for example, Trilis and Carphephorus.
Liatris is closely related to Garberia from Florida, but can be distinguished because the latter is a shrub and has a different karyotype.
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Liatris aspera – rough gayfeather
Liatris microcephala – dwarf gayfeather


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Worldwide use

Germany

Prachtscharte

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Japan

リアトリス


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The Southwest of Northern Amerika

Rough Blazing Star, Liatris aspera Michx

kigo for autumn

Liatris aspera also known as the lacerate, rough, tall or prairie blazing star is a wildflower that is found the mid to eastern United States in habitats that range from mesic to dry prairie and dry savanna.
It grows to two to four feet. The flowers are an erect spike with numerous, purple, button-like, stalkless flower heads blooming from the top down. Leaves are alternate, numerous, rough, and narrow along the entire stem.
It flowers from mid-August through September,
with seed becoming ripe in October to November.
One of the many plants and animals Meriwether Lewis and William Clark discovered on their journey to get to the Pacific Ocean.
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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


Gay Feather.


liatris ~
my summertime friend's
latest launchpad

Shared by Elaine Andre
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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