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§1 Plant

Liatris squarrosa (L.) Michx. var. hirsuta (Rydb.) Gaiser

vernacular scaly blazing star — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
LISQH
GBIF
3104322 syn.
Rank
variety
scaly blazing star (Liatris squarrosa var. hirsuta)
Platephotograph · Kate GoodenoughCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 90 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 90 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 90 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N
Iowa view state ↗ 9 N
Kansas view state ↗ 22 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
Missouri view state ↗ 29 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N
Texas view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LISQH ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3104322 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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