Liatris
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See text. About 30 known species. | |
Liatris (common names: Blazing-star, Gay-feather or Button snakeroot) is a genus of ornamental plants in the Asteraceae family. These plants are used as a popular summer flowers for bouquets.
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.
Species
- Liatris acidota
- Liatris aspera - rough gayfeather
- Liatris cylindracea - Ontario blazing star
- Liatris elegans - pinkscale blazing star
- Liatris graminifolia- grass-leafed blazing star
- Liatris ligulistylis - meadow blazing star
- Liatris microcephala - dwarf gayfeather
- Liatris odoratissima - deerstongue
- Liatris oligocephala
- Liatris provincialis
- Liatris punctata - dotted blazing star
- Liatris pycnostachya - prairie blazing star
- Liatris spicata -dense blazing star
- Liatris squarrosa- Earl's blazing star
- Liatris squarrulosa - southern blazing star
- Liatris regenerata Seaton rising star
- Liatris tenuifolia Florida blazing star
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