Rough blazing star
Liatris aspera Michx.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Button blazing star, Tall blazing star, Lacerate blazing-star, Lacerate blazing star, Rough gayfeather
Formerly Lacinaria aspera
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; Wikipedia 30–180 cm
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- French
- liatris rugueux
- Finnish
- isopunatähkä
- Chinese (China)
- 糙蛇鞭菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Liatris aspera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.