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Photographer: Hugh H. Iltis
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Family Asteraceae
Liatris cylindracea Michx.
cylindrical blazing-star, few-headed blazing-star
Liatris: meaning lost in antiquity
cylindracea: cylindrical
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 6"-24" tall forb; stems leafy |
| Flower: | head 5/8" wide with 10-35 pink disk flowers, bracts (phyllaries) with sharp pointed tips; inflorescence with one to a few heads in spike-like cluster; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, long, linear, up to 1/2" wide |
| Habitat: | dry; prairies; in rocky, sandy soil |
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