Liatris hesperelegans

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Liatris hesperelegans, photographed by Kyle M. Simpson — fig. b Kyle M. Simpson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101553748

Liatris hesperelegans, photographed by Sam Kieschnick — fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55702603

Liatris hesperelegans, photographed by Laura Clark — fig. d Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9961925

Liatris hesperelegans, photographed by Annika Lindqvist — fig. f Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5272088

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Liatris hesperelegans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Arkansas	ARK	NORTHERN AMERICA
Louisiana	LOU
Oklahoma	OKL
Texas	TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 92 in flower of 117 examined

63%

94%

96%

85%

27%

Proportion of examined Liatris hesperelegans in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	12	19	63%	41% to 81%
Aug	16	17	94%	73% to 99%
Sep	27	28	96%	82% to 99%
Oct	34	40	85%	71% to 93%
Nov	3	11	27%	10% to 57%
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Liatris hesperelegans observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 92 of 117 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

When it blooms, where you are 1 state

State	Peaks	Observations in flower
Texas	Sep	73

Where it actually grows measured, from 412 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	1.5 °C	4.1 °C	7.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	32.8 °C	33.7 °C	34.7 °C
Annual rainfall	859 mm	1,338 mm	1,546 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	150 mm	256 mm	329 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 412 research-grade observations of Liatris hesperelegans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.