Liatris cylindracea Michx.

Ontario blazing star (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Liatris

Characteristics

Plants 20–60 cm. Corms usually globose, rarely elongate. Stems glabrous. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline 3(–5)-nerved, linear-oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 80–250 × 2–6 mm (largest usually distal to proximalmost), gradually reduced distally, essentially glabrous (proximal margins pilose-ciliate). Heads borne singly or (2–28) in loose to dense, racemiform to spiciform arrays. Peduncles 0 or (spreading-ascending) 2–10(–20) mm. Involucres cylindro-campanulate, (11–)13–18 × 6–8 mm. Phyllaries in 5–7 series, ovate-triangular (outer) to broadly oblong or spatulate-oblong, strongly unequal, essentially glabrous, margins usually with narrow hyaline borders, ciliolate, apices broadly rounded, rounded-acuminate, or truncate (inner stiffly mucronate). Florets 10–35; corolla tubes glabrous inside (lobes adaxially hispid). Cypselae 5–7 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles plumose.
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Glabrous or rarely short-hairy, 2–6 dm; lvs ± numerous, firm, linear or nearly so, the lowest small and subsheathing, the next longer, 10–25 cm × 2–12 mm, the rest reduced upward; heads few or even solitary, stiffly pedunculate or sessile; invol 11–20 mm, broadly cylindric or cylindric-campanulate, its bracts firm, appressed or a little loose, generally broadly rounded and shortly mucronate, occasionally more tapering or without the mucro; fls 10–35 per head, the cor-lobes coarsely hairy within; pappus evidently plumose; 2n=20. Dry, open places; w. N.Y. and s. Ont. to s. O., n. Ind., Mich., and Minn., s. to Mo. and irregularly to Tenn. and Ala. July–Sept.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.6
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-7

Usage

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Human toxicity -
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 84
Germination temperacture (C°) -5 - 3
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Minimum temperature (C°) -35
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Images

Flower

Liatris cylindracea flower picture by richard burger (cc-by-sa)
Liatris cylindracea flower picture by Jake Gaster (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Liatris cylindracea world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:230560-1
WFO ID wfo-0000051325
COL ID 6Q6XD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Liatris monocephala Liatris cylindracea Liatris marginata Liatris intermedia Lacinaria cylindracea Liatris nervata Liatris flexuosa Lacinaria nervata Liatris cylindracea f. cylindracea Liatris striata Liatris cylindracea var. cylindracea Liatris squarrosa var. intermedia Liatris stricta