Sessile Blazing Star

Scientific Name:   Liatris spicata


Flowers bloom from the top down. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Sessile Blazing Star


Genus species: Liatris spicata
Common Name: Sessile Blazing Star
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Introduced Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Pink/Red Violet/Blue
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom  
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