Common Name: Shaggy Blazing-star, Grass-leaf Gayfeather, Grass-leaf Blazingstar

USDA and ITIS no longer list the two varieties.

Note, while similar to other Liatris species (L. tenuifolia), of a rosette of grass like basal leaves (widest at midpoint), and narrow 1 nerve stem leaves that can have a few sessile hairs which are reduced towards the top, mostly glabrous stem with small cluster of flower heads, its the habitat that helps define this species. L. pilosa grows in a wide variety of habitats of old fields, pine barrens, scrub oak-pine sandhills, openings in pine, oak, and oak-hickory woods, tidal marsh edges, sandy fields, dune hollows, wet sand near beaches, edges of tidal marshes, sand to sandy clay-loam.

TRAIL: Stevens Creek Preserve
HABITAT: pine forest opening of sandy clay
ELEVATION: 80 m (260 ft)
BLOOM TIME: 28-SEP