Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia).
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Weakley et al. (2017) elevate this to species rank:
Liatris quadriflora (Chapm.) E.L. Bridges & Orzell. This is on our list to change in the FISF. The vast majority of plants in this group in South Florida appear to be this taxon. The Florida Atlas also reports
Liatris tenuifolia for Miami-Dade County based on several specimens at USF, but these need to be examined.
Liatris laevigata, which has previously been placed into synonymy under this taxon or confused with it on many species lists, is accepted also as a valid species by Weakley et al. (2017); it may be native to South Florida (e.g.
Cooley et al. 9032 USF), but this also needs some investigation (E.L. Bridges, email comm. 2017).
Synonyms:
Laciniaria laevigata, misapplied;
Liatris laevigata, misapplied;
Liatris tenuifolia, misapplied;
Liatris tenuifolia var.
laevigata, misapplied.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands in the lower Florida Keys. We consider this native and extant only on Big Pine Key in the lower Keys.
