Minnesota Seasons - rough blazing star


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Liatris aspera

Taxonomy	Family:	Asteraceae (aster)
	Subfamily:	Asteroideae
	Supertribe:	Helianthodae
	Tribe:	Eupatorieae
	Subtribe:	Liatrinae
Subordinate Taxa	Rough blazing star (Liatris aspera var. aspera) Rough blazing star (Liatris aspera var. intermedia)

Identification	See the varieties for identifying information.

Range			Sources: 2, 3, 5, 7.

Sightings	Agassiz Dunes SNA Blanket Flower Prairie SNA Blue Mounds State Park Bonanza Prairie SNA Bunker Hills Regional Park Cedar Creek Natural History Area Chippewa Prairie Clinton Prairie SNA Cottonwood River Prairie SNA Crow Wing State Park Crow-Hassan Park Reserve Des Moines River Prairie SNA Elm Creek Park Reserve Felton Prairie SNA Shrike Unit Glacial Lakes State Park Grey Cloud Dunes SNA Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA Kasota Prairie SNA Kellogg-Weaver Dunes SNA Kellogg-Weaver Unit Weaver Dunes Unit Lake Bronson State Park Lost Valley Prairie SNA Lundblad Prairie SNA			Mound Spring Prairie SNA Myre-Big Island State Park Ordway Prairie Oronoco Prairie SNA Osmundson Prairie SNA Ottertail Prairie SNA Pankratz Memorial Prairie North Unit Regal Meadow Rice Lake Savanna SNA Rock Ridge Prairie SNA Roscoe Prairie SNA Schaefer Prairie Shooting Star Prairie SNA Staffanson Prairie Strandness Prairie Two Rivers Aspen Prairie Parkland SNA Uncas Dunes SNA Wahpeton Prairie WMA Western Prairie SNA Wild Indigo Prairie SNA Wild River State Park Zimmerman Prairie

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Synonyms	Lacinaria aspera Lacinaria squarrosa var. intermedia Liatris aspera var. salutans

Common Names	lacerate blazing star rough blazing star rough gayfeather tall blazing star tall gayfeather