Index / Search / Liatris elegans
§1 Plant
Liatris elegans (Walter) Michx.
vernacular pinkscale blazing star — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Liatris
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 210 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 210 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Conway 05029
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Johnson 05071
- Lafayette 05073
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Perry 05105
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Saline 05125
- Union 05139
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Pasco 12101
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Burke 13033
- Chatham 13051
- Clay 13061
- Coffee 13069
- Columbia 13073
- Crawford 13079
- Crisp 13081
- Dooly 13093
- Echols 13101
- Grady 13131
- Hancock 13141
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- Meriwether 13199
- Muscogee 13215
- Peach 13225
- Screven 13251
- Stewart 13259
- Talbot 13263
- Taylor 13269
- Twiggs 13289
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Tammany 22103
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 69 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Aransas 48007
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Bowie 48037
- Brazos 48041
- Brooks 48047
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Camp 48063
- Cass 48067
- Cherokee 48073
- Colorado 48089
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Fayette 48149
- Franklin 48159
- Freestone 48161
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Harrison 48203
- Henderson 48213
- Houston 48225
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Kleberg 48273
- Lamar 48277
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Limestone 48293
- Medina 48325
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Morris 48343
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Nueces 48355
- Panola 48365
- Polk 48373
- Red River 48387
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Augustine 48405
- San Jacinto 48407
- Shelby 48419
- Smith 48423
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Van Zandt 48467
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Wood 48499
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LIEL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3104323 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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