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|familia = [[Asteraceae]]
|familia = [[Asteraceae]]
|tribus = [[Eupatorieae]]
|tribus = [[Eupatorieae]]
|genus = '''Liatris'''
|genus = '''''Liatris'''''
|genus_authority = [[Joseph Gaertner|Gaertn.]] ex [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreb.]]
|genus_authority = [[Joseph Gaertner|Gaertn.]] ex [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreb.]]
|subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
|subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
|subdivision = See text. About 30 known species.
|subdivision = About 37, see text
|}}
|}}
[[Image:Liatris aspera3.jpg|thumb|right|thumb|''Liatris aspera'' showing flower detail.]]
[[Image:Liatris aspera3.jpg|thumb|right|thumb|''[[Liatris aspera]]'']]
'''''Liatris''''' ({{IPAc-en|l|aɪ|ˈ|æ|t|r|ɨ|s}};<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607</ref> common names: '''Blazing-star''', '''Gay-feather''' or '''Button snakeroot''') is a genus of [[ornamental plant]]s in the [[Asteraceae]] family, native to [[North America]], [[Mexico]], and [[the Bahamas]].<ref name="fna">{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=118496 | work = [[Flora of North America]] | title = Liatris Gaertner ex Schreber }}</ref> These plants are used as a popular summer flowers for [[flower bouquet|bouquet]]s.
'''''Liatris''''' ({{IPAc-en|l|aɪ|ˈ|æ|t|r|ɨ|s}};<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book''. 1995. 606–07.</ref> is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Asteraceae]] native to [[North America]], including [[Mexico]] and [[the Bahamas]].<ref name="fna">{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=118496 | work = [[Flora of North America]] | title = ''Liatris'' Gaertner ex Schreber }}</ref> Common names include '''blazing star''' and '''gayfeather'''.<ref name=fna/><ref name=itis>[http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=37906 ''Liatris''.] Integrated Taxonomic Information system.</ref> Some species are used as [[ornamental plant]]s, sometimes in [[flower bouquet]]s.


They are perennials, surviving the winter in the form of [[corm]]s.<ref name="fna" />
They are perennials, surviving the winter in the form of [[corm]]s.<ref name="fna" />


''Liatris'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including ''[[Schinia|Schinia gloriosa]]'', ''[[Schinia|Schinia sanguinea]]'' (both of which feed exclusively on the genus), ''[[Schinia|Schinia tertia]]'' and ''[[Schinia|Schinia trifascia]]''.
''Liatris'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e 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 ==
== Classification ==
''Liatris'' is in the tribe [[Eupatorieae]] of the aster family. Like other members of this tribe, the flower heads have [[disc floret]]s and no ray florets. ''Liatris'' is in the subtribe Liatrinae along with, for example, ''[[Trilisa]]''<ref name="schmidt" /> and ''[[Carphephorus]]''.<ref name="schmidt">{{ cite journal | title = Phylogeny and biogeography of Eupatorium (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) based on nuclear ITS sequence data | author = Gregory J. Schmidt and Edward E. Schilling | journal = American Journal of Botany | year = 2000 | volume = 87 | pages = 716–726 | url = http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/5/716 | pmid = 10811796 | doi = 10.2307/2656858 | issue = 5 | jstor = 2656858 | publisher = Botanical Society of America }}</ref>
''Liatris'' is in the tribe [[Eupatorieae]] of the aster family. Like other members of this tribe, the flower heads have [[Pseudanthium|disc florets]] and no ray florets. ''Liatris'' is in the subtribe Liatrinae along with ''[[Trilisa]]'', ''[[Carphephorus]]'', and other genera.<ref name="schmidt">{{ cite journal | title = Phylogeny and biogeography of ''Eupatorium'' (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) based on nuclear ITS sequence data | author = Schmidt, G. J. and E. E. Schilling | journal = American Journal of Botany | year = 2000 | volume = 87 | pages = 716–726 | url = http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/5/716 | pmid = 10811796 | doi = 10.2307/2656858 | issue = 5 | jstor = 2656858 | publisher = Botanical Society of America }}</ref>
''Liatris'' is closely related to ''[[Garberia]]'' from [[Florida]], but can be distinguished because the latter is a [[shrub]] and has a different [[karyotype]].<ref name="fna-garberia">{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=113251 | work = [[Flora of North America]] | title = Garberia A. Gray }}</ref>
''Liatris'' is closely related to ''[[Garberia]]'', a genus with only one species [[endemism|endemic]] to [[Florida]]. The two genera can be distinguished by the [[shrub]] form of the latter and by [[karyotype]].<ref name="fna-garberia">{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=113251 | work = [[Flora of North America]] | title = ''Garberia'' A.Gray }}</ref>


==Species==
==Species==
There are 37 species of ''Liatris''.<ref name="fna"/> A partial list is:
There are 37 species of ''Liatris''.<ref name="fna"/>


Species include:<ref name=fna/><ref name=itis/><ref name=grin>[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6808 GRIN Species Records of ''Liatris''.] GRIN.</ref>
*''[[Liatris acidota]]''

*''[[Liatris aestivalis]]''
*''[[Liatris aspera]]'' <small></small> &ndash; rough gayfeather
*''[[Liatris acidota]]'' &ndash; sharp blazing star, Gulf Coast gayfeather
*''[[Liatris bracteata]]''
*''[[Liatris aestivalis]]'' &ndash; summer gayfeather
*''[[Liatris chapmanii]]''
*''[[Liatris aspera]]'' &ndash; rough gayfeather, tall blazing star
*''[[Liatris cokeri]]''
*''[[Liatris bracteata]]'' &ndash; bracted blazing star
*''[[Liatris compacta]]''
*''[[Liatris chapmanii]]'' &ndash; Chapman's blazing star
*''[[Liatris cylindracea]]'' <small></small> &ndash; Ontario blazing star
*''[[Liatris cokeri]]'' &ndash; Coker's gayfeather
*''[[Liatris cymosa]]''
*''[[Liatris compacta]]'' &ndash; scaly blazing star
*''[[Liatris elegans]]'' <small></small> &ndash; pinkscale blazing star
*''[[Liatris cylindracea]]'' &ndash; Ontario blazing star, fewhead blazing star
*''[[Liatris elegantula]]''
*''[[Liatris cymosa]]'' &ndash; branched blazing star
*''[[Liatris garberi]]''
*''[[Liatris elegans]]'' &ndash; pinkscale blazing star, elegant gayfeather
*''[[Liatris gholsonii]]''
*''[[Liatris elegantula]]'' &ndash; shaggy blazing star
*''[[Liatris glandulosa]]''
*''[[Liatris garberi]]'' &ndash; Garber's blazing star
*''[[Liatris gracilis]]''
*''[[Liatris gholsonii]]'' &ndash; Gholson's blazing star
*''[[Liatris graminifolia]]'' <small></small> &ndash; grass-leafed blazing star
*''[[Liatris glandulosa]]'' &ndash; glandular blazing star
*''[[Liatris helleri]]''
*''[[Liatris gracilis]]'' &ndash; slender blazing star
*''[[Liatris hirsuta]]''
*''[[Liatris helleri]]'' &ndash; Heller's blazing star, turgid blazing star
*''[[Liatris laevigata]]''
*''[[Liatris hirsuta]]'' &ndash; hairy gayfeather
*''[[Liatris lancifolia]]''
*''[[Liatris laevigata]]'' &ndash; shortleaf blazingstar
*''[[Liatris ligulistylis]]'' <small></small> &ndash; meadow blazing star
*''[[Liatris lancifolia]]'' &ndash; lanceleaf blazingstar
*''[[Liatris microcephala]]'' <small></small> &ndash; dwarf gayfeather
*''[[Liatris ligulistylis]]'' &ndash; Rocky Mountain blazing star, Northern Plains gayfeather, strap-style gayfeather
*''[[Liatris odoratissima]]'' <small></small> &ndash; deerstongue
*''[[Liatris microcephala]]'' &ndash; small-head gayfeather
*''[[Liatris ohlingerae]]''
*''[[Liatris ohlingerae]]'' &ndash; Florida blazing star, scrub blazing star
*''[[Liatris oligocephala]]''
*''[[Liatris oligocephala]]'' &ndash; Cahaba torch
*''[[Liatris patens]]''
*''[[Liatris patens]]'' &ndash; spreading blazing star, Georgia gayfeather
*''[[Liatris pauciflora]]''
*''[[Liatris pauciflora]]'' &ndash; fewflower blazing star
*''[[Liatris pilosa]]''
*''[[Liatris pilosa]]'' &ndash; grass-leaf gayfeather, shaggy blazing star
*''[[Liatris provincialis]]''
*''[[Liatris provincialis]]'' &ndash; Godfrey's blazing star
*''[[Liatris punctata]]'' <small></small> &ndash; dotted blazing star
*''[[Liatris punctata]]'' &ndash; dotted blazing star, plains gayfeather
*''[[Liatris pycnostachya]]'' <small></small> &ndash; prairie blazing star
*''[[Liatris pycnostachya]]'' &ndash; prairie blazing star, button snakeroot, cattail gayfeather, thickspike gayfeather, Kansas gayfeather
*''[[Liatris savannensis]]''
*''[[Liatris savannensis]]'' &ndash; savanna blazing star
*''[[Liatris scariosa]]''<!-- AmericanMidlandNaturalist159:251. -->
*''[[Liatris scariosa]]''<!-- AmericanMidlandNaturalist159:251. --> &ndash; northern gayfeather, devil's bite
**''L. scariosa'' var. ''novae-angliae'' <small></small> &ndash; New England blazing star
**''L. scariosa'' var. ''nieuwlandii'' &ndash; Nieuwland's blazing star
**''L. scariosa'' var. ''nieuwlandii'' <small></small> &ndash; Nieuwland's blazing star
**''L. scariosa'' var. ''novae-angliae'' &ndash; New England blazing star
*''[[Liatris spicata]]'' <small></small> &ndash; dense blazing star, spiked blazing star
**''L. scariosa'' var. ''scariosa'' &ndash; Virginia blazing star
*''[[Liatris squarrosa]]'' <small></small> &ndash; Earl's blazing star
*''[[Liatris spicata]]'' &ndash; dense blazing star, button snakewort, florist gayfeather, marsh blazingstar, prairie-pine
*''[[Liatris squarrulosa]]'' <small></small> &ndash; southern blazing star
*''[[Liatris squarrosa]]'' &ndash; loosescale gayfeather, colicroot, scaly blazing star
*''[[Liatris tenuifolia]]'' <small></small> &ndash; Florida blazing star
*''[[Liatris squarrulosa]]'' &ndash; southern gayfeather, Appalachian blazing star
*''[[Liatris tenuis]]''
*''[[Liatris tenuifolia]]'' &ndash; pine-needle gayfeather, shortleaf gayfeather
*''[[Liatris virgata]]''
*''[[Liatris tenuis]]'' &ndash; gulf blazing star, Shinners' gayfeather
*''[[Liatris virgata]]'' &ndash; wand blazing star, King's Mountain gayfeather, piedmont gayfeather


== References ==
== References ==

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About 37, see text

Liatris aspera

Liatris (/lˈætr[invalid input: 'ɨ']s/;[1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae native to North America, including Mexico and the Bahamas.[2] Common names include blazing star and gayfeather.[2][3] Some species are used as ornamental plants, sometimes in flower bouquets.

They are perennials, surviving the winter in the form of corms.[2]

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.[4] 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.[5]

Species

There are 37 species of Liatris.[2]

Species include:[2][3][6]

References

  1. ^ Sunset Western Garden Book. 1995. 606–07.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Liatris Gaertner ex Schreber". Flora of North America.
  3. ^ a b Liatris. Integrated Taxonomic Information system.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Garberia A.Gray". Flora of North America.
  6. ^ GRIN Species Records of Liatris. GRIN.