| Author | (Aiton) Willdenow | |
| Distribution | Coastal Plain, Sandhills (uncommon), lower to middle Piedmont; scattered westward.
Nearly restricted to the Coastal Plain and Piedmont, NJ and PA south to SC; sparingly in the Appalachians. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common to common in most of the Coastal Plain and eastern half of the Piedmont, but uncommon in the Sandhills, the western half of the Piedmont, and low Mountains/foothills. Rare in the northeastern Coastal Plain and the southwestern Mountains. | |
| Habitat | Dry to xeric Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass woodlands, open pine-oak-hickory woodlands, weedy clearings, old fields, margins of brackish marshes, and powerline clearings. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting late August-October. | |
| Identification | Blazing-stars typically have single stems, many slender leaves, and a terminal spike-like inflorescence of disk florets only. They grow from very hard, roundish, underground corms. Shaggy Blazing-star grows 1.5-4 feet tall, 1-several stems from a single corm, stems upright to leaning, lower leaves lance-linear and generally without stalks, middle and upper leaves progressively narrower, shorter, and stalkless. The heads are narrow, have 6-13 pink-purple florets, and occur all around the stem; the involucral bracts are pilose and blunt-tipped. Note the fine white hairs along the margins of the leaves, sticking out like eyelashes. Those are lacking in Sandhills Blazing-star (L. cokeri). Wand Blazing-star (L. virgata) is very similar, but its involucral bracts are acute (vs. blunt) and its heads are loosely arranged (vs. densely). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Formerly included within Liatris graminifolia, as was L. virgata.
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| Other Common Name(s) | None | |
| State Rank | [S5] | |
| Global Rank | G5? | |
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