Liatris
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 hesperelegans – pink-scale blazing star, western elegant blazing-star - AR OK TX LA
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
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^ 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
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