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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Liatris tenuifolia
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 131. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Pine-needle or shortleaf gayfeather
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lacinaria tenuifolia
|authority=(Nuttall) Kuntze
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Liatris;Liatris tenuifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Liatris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Liatris tenuifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 515, 534
|treatment_page=page 526
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>40–150 cm. <b>Corms</b> globose. <b>Stems</b> glabrous or sparsely pilose. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline (arising from separated nodes) 1-nerved, linear to linear-lanceolate, 100–300 × 1–2(–2.5) mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, essentially glabrous, gland-dotted (proximal margins sometimes ciliate). <b>Heads</b> in compact, racemiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> (ascending) 1–7 mm. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate-campanulate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–3(–4) series, lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with (pinkish purple) hyaline borders, apices usually rounded-retuse and minutely involute-cuspidate to apiculate. <b>Florets</b> 4–6; corolla tubes glabrous inside. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.5–4 mm; pappi: lengths ± equaling corollas, bristles barbellate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=Longleaf pine savannas, longleaf pine-scrub oak, turkey oak-bluejack oak, slash pine-sand pine-scrub, sand pine-scrub, sand ridges, hills, and flats, roadsides
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Liatris tenuifolia
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lacinaria tenuifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=Longleaf pine savannas, longleaf pine-scrub oak, turkey oak-bluejack oak, slash pine-sand pine-scrub, sand pine-scrub, sand ridges, hills, and flats, roadsides
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Liatris
|species=Liatris tenuifolia
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