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§1 Plant
Liatris squarrulosa Michx.
vernacular Appalachian 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
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 175 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.4–7.5
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.5 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
- No Known Source
- 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 175 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caldwell 22021
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- 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. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Amite 28005
- Chickasaw 28017
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Jasper 28061
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lauderdale 28075
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Marshall 28093
- Noxubee 28103
- Panola 28107
- Pontotoc 28115
- Scott 28123
- Tishomingo 28141
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yalobusha 28161
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Clay 47027
- Coffee 47031
- Cumberland 47035
- Decatur 47039
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardin 47071
- Henry 47079
- Hickman 47081
- Houston 47083
- Humphreys 47085
- Jefferson 47089
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- McMinn 47107
- McNairy 47109
- Meigs 47121
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Perry 47135
- Rhea 47143
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Scott 47151
- Sevier 47155
- Stewart 47161
- Van Buren 47175
- Wayne 47181
- Williamson 47187
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LISQ2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3104297 ↗Record version
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