From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of flowering plants
Liatris ligulistylis with
goldenrod soldier beetles (Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus ) on it
Liatris (
[2] ), commonly known as gayfeather
[3] and blazing star
[4]
[5] is a genus of
flowering plants in the tribe
Eupatorieae within the family
Asteraceae native to
North America (Canada, United States, Mexico and
the Bahamas ).
[6]
[7]
[4] Some species are used as
ornamental plants , sometimes in
flower bouquets . They are perennials, surviving the winter and resprouting underground
corms .
[4]
Liatris species are used as food plants by the
larvae of some
Lepidoptera species including the flower moths
Schinia gloriosa and
Schinia sanguinea , both of which feed exclusively on the genus, and
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
Trilisa ,
Carphephorus , and other genera.
[8]
[9] Liatris is closely related to
Garberia , a genus with only one species
endemic to
Florida . The two genera can be distinguished by the
shrub form of the latter and by
karyotype .
[10]
Species
Species in the genus include:
[1]
[4]
[5]
[11]
[12]
[13]
Liatris acidota – sharp blazing star, Gulf Coast blazing star -
TX
LA
Liatris aestivalis – summer blazing star -
TX
OK
Liatris aspera – tall blazing star -
ONT , United States (
Mississippi Valley ,
Great Lakes , scattered locales in East)
Liatris borealis -
Allegheny Mountains of
PA
Liatris × boykinii -
GA
AL
Liatris bracteata – bracted blazing star -
TX
Liatris chapmanii – Chapman's blazing star -
FL
GA
AL
Liatris cokeri – Coker's blazing star -
NC
SC
Liatris compacta – scaly blazing star -
AR
OK
Liatris creditonensis -
ONT
Liatris cylindracea – Ontario blazing star, fewhead blazing star -
ONT , central + southeastern United States
Liatris cymosa – branched blazing star -
TX
Liatris × deamii
Liatris densispicata -
MN
Liatris elegans – pinkscale blazing star, elegant blazing star -
TX
OK
AR
LA
MS
AL
FL
GA
SC
Liatris elegantula – shaggy blazing star -
TN
MS
AL
GA
FL
Liatris fallacior -
ND
Liatris × frostii -
MN
MO
Liatris garberi – Garber's blazing star -
FL
Bahamas
Liatris gholsonii – Gholson's blazing star -
FL
Liatris × gladewitzii -
ONT ,
MI
WI
IL
Liatris glandulosa – glandular blazing star -
TX
Liatris gracilis – slender blazing star -
MS
AL
GA
FL
SC
Liatris helleri – Heller's blazing star, turgid blazing star -
MD
WV
VA
NC
Liatris hirsuta – hairy blazing star - central + southeastern United States
Liatris laevigata – shortleaf blazingstar -
FL
GA
Liatris lancifolia – lanceleaf blazingstar -
NM
TX
CO
WY
KS
NE
SD
IA
Liatris ligulistylis – Rocky Mountain blazing star, strap-style blazing star -
MAN
SAS
ALB
ND
SD
MN
WI
IL
IA
MO
NE
WY
MT
CO
NM
Liatris microcephala – small-head blazing star -
NC
SC
GA
AL
TN
KY
Liatris novae-angliae – New England blazing-star
Liatris ohlingerae – Florida blazing star, scrub blazing star -
FL
Liatris oligocephala – Cahaba torch -
AL
Liatris patens – spreading blazing star, Georgia blazing star -
FL
GA
SC
Liatris pauciflora – fewflower blazing star -
AL
GA
FL
SC
NC
Liatris pilosa – grass-leaf blazing star, shaggy blazing star -
SC
NC
VA
MD
DE
PA
NJ
Liatris × platylepis -
LA
Liatris provincialis – Godfrey's blazing star -
FL
Liatris punctata – dotted blazing star, plains gayfeather -
MAN
SAS
ALB eastern + central United States
Coahuila ,
Nuevo León ,
Tamaulipas ,
San Luis Potosí
Liatris pycnostachya – prairie blazing star, button snakeroot, cattail gayfeather, thickspike gayfeather, Kansas gayfeather -
QUE eastern United States
Liatris × ridgwayi -
IL
KS
Liatris savannensis – savanna blazing star -
FL
Liatris scariosa – northern gayfeather, devil's bite - eastern + central United States
Liatris × serotina -
LA
Liatris × spheroidea -
ONT
Liatris spicata – dense blazing star, button snakewort, florist gayfeather, marsh blazingstar, prairie-pine -
ONT
QUE eastern United States
Liatris squarrosa – loosescale gayfeather, colicroot, scaly blazing star - central + southeastern United States
Liatris squarrulosa – southern gayfeather, Appalachian blazing star - south-central + southeastern United States
Liatris × steelei -
IL
IN
KY
Liatris tenuifolia – pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf gayfeather -
MS
AL
GA
TN
SC
Liatris tenuis – gulf blazing star, Shinners' gayfeather -
TX
LA
Liatris virgata – wand blazing star, King's Mountain gayfeather, piedmont gayfeather -
VA
WV
NC
SC
GA
Liatris × weaveri -
NE
References
^
a
b
Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
Archived 2014-12-17 at
archive.today
^ Sunset Western Garden Book . 1995. 606–07.
^
"ITIS - Report: Liatris" .
^
a
b
c
d Nesom, Guy L. (2006).
"Liatris " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^
a
b
"Liatris" .
Integrated Taxonomic Information System .
^ Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel von. 1791. Genera Plantarum 2: 542
^
"Liatris " .
Tropicos .
Missouri Botanical Garden .
^ Schmidt, G. J. and E. E. Schilling (2000).
"Phylogeny and biogeography of Eupatorium (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) based on nuclear ITS sequence data" . American Journal of Botany . 87 (5). Botanical Society of America: 716–726.
doi :
10.2307/2656858 .
JSTOR
2656858 .
PMID
10811796 .
^
"Asteraceae subtribe Liatrinae" .
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) .
Agricultural Research Service (ARS),
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
^ Lamont, Eric E. (2006).
"Garberia " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^
GRIN Species Records of Liatris . GRIN.
^
"Liatris " . County-level distribution maps from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) . Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
^ Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 – Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272
Media related to
Liatris at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to
Liatris at Wikispecies