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habit--Liatris is one of the showiest plants in central Texas! |
heads closeup--in Liatris, ray flowers are absent, leaving only disk flowers. Can you pick out the individual disk flowers, with their five-lobed corollas? |
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heads again, showing the long exserted (meaning they stick out past the end of the corolla tube) stigmas |
heads again, even closer |
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| young heads even closer, showing the involucral bracts (these are called phyllaries in Asteraceae) | stem showing leaves--can you tell by looking at the leaves what kind of habitat Liatris prefers? |
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| leaves closeup--what kind of margins are present here? What kind of leaf shape? | This is an individual "head". |
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