Summary description from Wikipedia:

Liatris pycnostachya in languages:

English

prairie blazing star

English

thick-spike blazing star

English

thick-spike gayfeather

English

cattail gay-feather

English

cattail blazing star

French

Liatris à épi dense

German

Prärie-Prachtscharte

Japanese

ヒメキリンギク

Lithuanian

Tankiagraižis liatris

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Parent Taxon

• Liatris

Sibling Taxa

• Liatris acidota
• Liatris aestivalis
• Liatris aspera
• Liatris bracteata
• Liatris bridgesii
• Liatris carrizana
• Liatris chapmanii
• Liatris cokeri
• Liatris compacta
• Liatris cylindracea
• Liatris cymosa
• Liatris elegans
• Liatris elegantula
• Liatris garberi
• Liatris gholsonii
• Liatris glandulosa
• Liatris gracilis
• Liatris helleri
• Liatris hesperelegans
• Liatris hirsuta
• Liatris laevigata
• Liatris lancifolia
• Liatris ligulistylis
• Liatris microcephala
• Liatris novae-angliae
• Liatris ohlingerae
• Liatris oligocephala
• Liatris patens
• Liatris pauciflora
• Liatris pilosa
• Liatris provincialis
• Liatris punctata
• Liatris pycnostachya
• Liatris quadriflora
• Liatris savannensis
• Liatris scariosa
• Liatris secunda
• Liatris spheroidea
• Liatris spicata
• Liatris squarrosa
• Liatris squarrulosa
• Liatris tenuifolia
• Liatris tenuis
• Liatris virgata
• Liatris × freemaniana
• Liatris × frostii
• Liatris × gladewitzii
• Liatris × ridgwayi
• Liatris × steelei
• Liatris × weaveri

Child Taxa

• Liatris pycnostachya lasiophylla
• Liatris pycnostachya pycnostachya

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