#Liatris the blazing star

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 27 August 2024

The entrance to Inverness Botanic Garden has recently been landscaped with a great plant association of Liatris spicata (button snakewort, dense blazing star, Kansas gayfeather) and Liatris spicata 'Alba' with a groundcover, beneath these upright perennials, of Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow' (bugle). Both species grow best in moist but well–drained soil with Liatris spicata needing a sunny location.

Jill Raggett

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Liatris At Sunset

Liatris Blazing Stars stealing the limelight in a shopping mall in the city centre. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was actually taken in a shopping mall. That which had looked like a glimpse of the sun was really a spotlight.

A minimum shutter speed was specified so the camera had pushed the ISO up to the maximum set 6400 to try to comply. But the image came out surprisingly clean unlike the Canon RP we also use.

[faguscarolinensis]

Liatris squarrulosa / Appalachian Blazingstar at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[ainawgsd]

Pictures of my garden from yesterday.

[roadtrippinlilly]

Liatris

Blazing stars, also known as gayfeather, are a genus of flowering plants native to North America. They are perennials, meaning they can survive the winter and resprout from underground corms. Blazing stars are known as the "lazarus plant" because they can remain dormant during droughts and resprout when conditions are better. They produce bright purple flowers in August and September that attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. 

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[cllynnarts]

[thebotanicalarcade]

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[paulpingminho]

[lmaxell-plants]

Liatris Spicata - Marsh Blazing Star

native

Aster Family (Asteraceae)

Notes: Dr. Seuss ass looking plant. These are so fascinating to me and the pollinators love them. We have planted so many in this genus that it's going to be really special seeing them through the year. This one was also being bullied by the hibiscus and is really leaning trying to find sun. It's just the beginning of this one's bloom but I've been behind so we're getting the pic at this stage.

[boggedybloggedy]

I managed to squeeze in a visit to a local park in between hurricanes:

The entrance is much wetter than usual O.O

I've been planning to visit this preserve during autumn wildflower season since last winter. Specifically, I wanted to see the goldenrods and blazing stars in full bloom. The blazing stars are just starting to bloom in my garden, and the chapman's goldenrod has been out in full force for a couple weeks at a preserve I work at, so I thought surely now was the time to visit! Also I'm afraid by next weekend all the flowers will be flattened or drowned.

Alas, I went almost the whole visit without seeing either. It's too soon.

I did see lots of Florida paintbrush! (Carphephorus corymbosus)

and this flower that's new to me, "Palafox" (Palafoxia feayi)

And this incredibly nifty spider (Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridians)

I saw exactly two, barely-opened blazing stars aka gayfeather (Liatris spp.) flowers near the end of my walk:

And then, by the parking lot, I spied goldenrods (Solidago spp.) on the trail I hadn't taken! Just on the other side of some knee deep water

all in all a good walk.

(now back to hurricane prepping i go.)

[faguscarolinensis]

Liatris spicata / Dense Blazing Star at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[britt-kageryuu]

I don't fully know how into botany Rise Donnie would be, but I wonder what his favorite plants, flowers, and succulents are.

Because I at least see him having some fun with plant names, like Liatris spicata a interesting purple feathery flower. It's also known as Gayfeather or Dense Blazing Star.

I could actually see him possibly looking into flower meanings for the heck of it. Then sends a highly insulting bouquet to someone. Like Big Momma, or maybe Usagi at first, maybe the Purple Dragons.

Though he would double check the meanings just to be sure he doesn't send the wrong message.

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Unusual flowers, right? They're from my liatris ('Blazing Star'), which is native to North America.

[kulapti]

Oct 2023, pen & inks. Grass is not all the same.

Many people don't know that grasslands have fall colors. This is partly because over 75% of the prairie habitat on the North American continent has been destroyed by agriculture, systematic destruction, and more recently by urban sprawl. We have less than 1% of historic tallgrass prairie remaining. Please learn about these beautiful and rare spaces to help them, and if you get the chance, go see a prairie in national grassland or in a state or national park.

Aside from the sparkly ink, this illustration has a narrower color range than the Red Hills mixedgrass prairie it represents.

Species: Little bluestem (S. scoparium), big bluestem (A. gerardii), maidenhair (Sporobolus sp.), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), blooming prairie blazing star (Liatris sp.), and the late season remnants of basketflower (Centaurea americana) and dwarf four-nerve daisy (Tetraneuris linearifolius).