mucronate
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Leaves linear to oblong-lanceolate; heads many, crowded; scales close, obtuse or the uppermost mucronate; achene smooth.—Low grounds, Ohio and Ky. to Dak., and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Involucral bracts mucronate, appressed Blazing Star, Liatris cylindracea. 99a.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
Stamens 4, the anthers mucronate or sometimes aristate at base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Flower mostly hairy at base, the glume mucronate or awned.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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