Lucas Land
Dense or Spiked Blazing Star
Liatris spicata
From Nearctica
Identification: Flowers lavender, numerous, sessile to the stem. Each flower head with few (5-10) florets. Flower bracts few, elongate, tinged with purple, closely appressed to the flower head, sticky, and with blunt apices. Stem hairless. Leaves elongate, thin, almost grasslike.
Habitat: Dense Blazing Star is found along the edges of marshes and in wet meadows.
Flowering period: July to September.
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