Liatris ([ Sunset Western Garden Book. 1995. 606–07.]), commonly known as gayfeather and blazing star is a genus of in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae native to North America (Canada, United States, Mexico and the Bahamas).[Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel von. 1791. Genera Plantarum 2: 542] Some species are used as , sometimes in . They are perennials, surviving the winter and resprouting from underground .
Liatris species are used as food plants by the of some Lepidoptera species such as of the genus Schinia.
Classification
Liatris is in the tribe Eupatorieae of the aster family. Like other members of this tribe, the flower heads have and no . Liatris is in the subtribe Liatrinae along with Trilisa, Carphephorus, and other genera. 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.
Species
Species in the genus include:[ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ][ GRIN Species Records of Liatris. GRIN.][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]
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Liatris acidota – sharp blazing star, Gulf Coast blazing star - Texas Louisiana
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Liatris aestivalis – summer blazing star - Texas Oklahoma
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Liatris aspera – tall blazing star - Ontario, United States (Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes, scattered locales in East)
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Liatris borealis - Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania
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Liatris × boykinii - GA Alabama
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Liatris bracteata – bracted blazing star - Texas
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Liatris chapmanii – Chapman's blazing star - Florida GA Alabama
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Liatris cokeri – Coker's blazing star - North Carolina South Carolina
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Liatris compacta – scaly blazing star - Arkansas Oklahoma
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Liatris creditonensis - Ontario
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Liatris cylindracea – Ontario blazing star, fewhead blazing star - Ontario, central + southeastern United States
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Liatris cymosa – branched blazing star - Texas
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Liatris × deamii
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Liatris densispicata - Minnesota
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Liatris elegans – pinkscale blazing star, elegant blazing star - Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida GA South Carolina
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Liatris elegantula – shaggy blazing star - Tennessee Mississippi Alabama GA Florida
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Liatris fallacior - North Dakota
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Liatris × frostii - Minnesota Missouri
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Liatris garberi – Garber's blazing star - Florida Bahamas
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Liatris gholsonii – Gholson's blazing star - Florida
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Liatris × gladewitzii - Ontario, Michigan Wisconsin Illinois
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Liatris glandulosa – glandular blazing star - Texas
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Liatris gracilis – slender blazing star - Mississippi Alabama GA Florida South Carolina
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Liatris helleri – Heller's blazing star, turgid blazing star - Maryland West Virginia Virginia North Carolina
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Liatris hesperelegans – pink-scale blazing star, western elegant blazing-star - Arkansas Oklahoma Texas Louisiana
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Liatris hirsuta – hairy blazing star - central + southeastern United States
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Liatris laevigata – shortleaf blazingstar - Florida GA
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Liatris lancifolia – lanceleaf blazingstar - New Mexico Texas Colorado Wyoming Kansas Nebraska South Dakota Iowa
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Liatris ligulistylis – Rocky Mountain blazing star, strap-style blazing star - Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Iowa Missouri Nebraska Wyoming Montana Colorado New Mexico
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Liatris microcephala – small-head blazing star - North Carolina South Carolina GA Alabama Tennessee Kentucky
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Liatris novae-angliae – New England blazing-star
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Liatris ohlingerae – Florida blazing star, scrub blazing star - Florida
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Liatris oligocephala – Cahaba torch - Alabama
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Liatris patens – spreading blazing star, Georgia blazing star - Florida GA South Carolina
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Liatris pauciflora – fewflower blazing star - Alabama GA Florida South Carolina North Carolina
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Liatris pilosa – grass-leaf blazing star, shaggy blazing star - South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey
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Liatris × platylepis - Louisiana
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Liatris provincialis – Godfrey's blazing star - Florida
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Liatris punctata – dotted blazing star, plains gayfeather - Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta eastern + central United States Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí
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Liatris pycnostachya – prairie blazing star, button snakeroot, cattail gayfeather, thickspike gayfeather, Kansas gayfeather - Quebec eastern United States
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Liatris × ridgwayi - Illinois Kansas
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Liatris savannensis – savanna blazing star - Florida
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Liatris scariosa – northern gayfeather, devil's bite - eastern + central United States
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Liatris × serotina - Louisiana
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Liatris × spheroidea - Ontario
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Liatris spicata – dense blazing star, button snakewort, florist gayfeather, marsh blazingstar, prairie-pine - Ontario Quebec eastern United States
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Liatris squarrosa – loosescale gayfeather, colicroot, scaly blazing star - central + southeastern United States
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Liatris squarrulosa – southern gayfeather, Appalachian blazing star - south-central + southeastern United States
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Liatris × steelei - Illinois Indiana Kentucky
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Liatris tenuifolia – pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf gayfeather - Alabama GA South Carolina Florida
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Liatris tenuis – gulf blazing star, Shinners' gayfeather - Texas Louisiana
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Liatris virgata – wand blazing star, King's Mountain gayfeather, piedmont gayfeather - Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina GA
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Liatris × weaveri - Nebraska