Liatris

Accepted species 61 Documented here 39 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 61 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Liatris punctata Hook. 727 documented
Liatris aspera Michx. 558 documented
Liatris pycnostachya Michx. 437 documented
Liatris pycnostachya Michaux 437 documented
Liatris spicata (L.) Willd. 341 documented
Liatris squarrosa (L.) Willd. 258 documented
Liatris gracilis Pursh 232 documented
Liatris squarrulosa Michx. 186 documented
Liatris pilosa (Aiton) Willd. 174 documented
Liatris cylindracea Michx. 160 documented
Liatris chapmanii Torr. & A.Gray 95 documented
Liatris ligulistylis (A.Nelson) K.Schum. 94 documented
Liatris hesperelegans G.L.Nesom 83 documented
Liatris tenuifolia Nutt. 74 documented
Liatris acidota Engelm. & Gray 59 documented
Liatris garberi A.Gray 58 documented
Liatris laevigata Nutt. 55 documented
Liatris pauciflora Pursh 54 documented
Liatris elegans (Walter) Michx. 48 documented
Liatris scariosa (L.) Willd. 42 documented
Liatris bridgesii (Mayfield) G.L.Nesom 41 documented
Liatris microcephala K.Schum. 36 documented
Liatris ohlingerae (S.F.Blake) B.L.Rob. 35 documented
Liatris carrizana (Gaiser) G.L.Nesom 31 documented
Liatris oligocephala J.R.Allison 30 documented
Liatris borealis Nutt. ex J.McNab 25 documented
Liatris elegantula K.Schum. 18 documented
Liatris cymosa K.Schum. 15 documented
Liatris cymosa (Nessel) Schumann 15 documented
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky 12 documented
Liatris helleri Porter 9 documented
Liatris patens Kral & G.L.Nesom 8 documented
Liatris savannensis Kral & G.L.Nesom 8 documented
Liatris provincialis R.K.Godfrey 7 documented
Liatris tenuis Shinners 7 documented
Liatris aestivalis G.L.Nesom & O'Kennon 6 documented
Liatris glandulosa G.L.Nesom & O'Kennon 6 documented
Liatris bracteata Gaiser 5 documented
Liatris compacta Rydb. 5 documented
Liatris gholsonii L.C.Anderson 1 below the evidence gate
Liatris × boykinii Torr. & A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × creditonensis Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × gladewitzii (Farw.) Farw. ex Shinners 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × johnsonii Matt White 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × macdanieliana J.R.Allison 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × orzellii G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × platylepis (Schumann) Small 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × ridgwayi Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × serotina (Greene) Schumann 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × steelei Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris × stellei Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris angustifolia (Bush) Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris deamii (Lunell) Shinners 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris densispicata (Bush) Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris fallacior (Lunell) Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris lancifolia (Greene) Kittell 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris mucronata DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris nieuwlandii (Lunell) Gaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris regimontis (Small) Schumann 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris spheroidea Michaux 0 below the evidence gate
Liatris spheroidea Michx. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.