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§1 Plant
Liatris spicata (L.) Willd.
vernacular dense blazing star — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Liatris
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 403 counties across 26 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–7.5
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 100,000
- Propagation
- seed, container, corm
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 403 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Bartow 13015
- Berrien 13019
- Brooks 13027
- Cherokee 13057
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Dade 13083
- DeKalb 13089
- Fannin 13111
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lee 13177
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- McIntosh 13191
- Oconee 13219
- Sumter 13261
- Taylor 13269
- Tift 13277
- Union 13291
- Walker 13295
- Worth 13321
Illinois view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Allen 18003
- Benton 18007
- Cass 18017
- Clark 18019
- Clay 18021
- Crawford 18025
- Elkhart 18039
- Floyd 18043
- Fountain 18045
- Fulton 18049
- Greene 18055
- Harrison 18061
- Henry 18065
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lake 18089
- LaPorte 18091
- Madison 18095
- Marshall 18099
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Noble 18113
- Perry 18123
- Porter 18127
- Posey 18129
- Pulaski 18131
- St. Joseph 18141
- Starke 18149
- Steuben 18151
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Tipton 18159
- Warren 18171
- Wayne 18177
- White 18181
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bath 21011
- Calloway 21035
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Estill 21065
- Fleming 21069
- Floyd 21071
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Henderson 21101
- Jefferson 21111
- Laurel 21125
- Lewis 21135
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Meade 21163
- Montgomery 21173
- Ohio 21183
- Perry 21193
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rowan 21205
- Whitley 21235
Louisiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Berrien 26021
- Branch 26023
- Calhoun 26025
- Cass 26027
- Clinton 26037
- Huron 26063
- Ionia 26067
- Iosco 26069
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lenawee 26091
- Livingston 26093
- Macomb 26099
- Monroe 26115
- Montmorency 26119
- Muskegon 26121
- Oakland 26125
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 10 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Adams 39001
- Allen 39003
- Brown 39015
- Champaign 39021
- Clark 39023
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Fulton 39051
- Henry 39069
- Hocking 39073
- Jackson 39079
- Lake 39085
- Logan 39091
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Marion 39101
- Ottawa 39123
- Perry 39127
- Pickaway 39129
- Ross 39141
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Van Wert 39161
- Wayne 39169
- Wood 39173
- Wyandot 39175
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Delaware 42045
- Forest 42053
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Washington 42125
- York 42133
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bledsoe 47007
- Carroll 47017
- Cheatham 47021
- Claiborne 47025
- Cocke 47029
- Coffee 47031
- Cumberland 47035
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Grundy 47061
- Hardin 47071
- Hickman 47081
- Houston 47083
- Humphreys 47085
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Moore 47127
- Morgan 47129
- Putnam 47141
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Sequatchie 47153
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Van Buren 47175
- Warren 47177
Virginia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Chesterfield 51041
- Craig 51045
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Giles 51071
- Highland 51091
- King George 51099
- Loudoun 51107
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Patrick 51141
- Pulaski 51155
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Smyth 51173
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Sussex 51183
- Wythe 51197
West Virginia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LISP ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3104314 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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