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§1 Plant
Liatris turgida Gaiser
vernacular turgid 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
· 26 counties across 5 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 26 counties across 5 states/territories.
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Carroll 51035
- Charlotte 51037
- Craig 51045
- Giles 51071
- Greene 51079
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Page 51139
- Pulaski 51155
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Tazewell 51185
- Washington 51191
- Wythe 51197
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LITU3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3104319 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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