Index / Search / Liatris elegans var. elegans
§1 Plant
Liatris elegans (Walter) Michx. var. elegans
vernacular pinkscale blazing star — variety · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Liatris
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 120 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 120 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Conway 05029
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Johnson 05071
- Lafayette 05073
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Perry 05105
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Saline 05125
- Union 05139
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Pasco 12101
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Burke 13033
- Chatham 13051
- Clay 13061
- Columbia 13073
- Crawford 13079
- Crisp 13081
- Dooly 13093
- Echols 13101
- Grady 13131
- Hancock 13141
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- Peach 13225
- Screven 13251
- Stewart 13259
- Talbot 13263
- Taylor 13269
- Twiggs 13289
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Tammany 22103
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LIELE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4273405 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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