| Scientific Name: | Liatris spicata |
| Common Name: | blazing star, liatris |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Canada - central, U.S. - central, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Alternate, Spiraled, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Violet, Purple, Pink, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Basal leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, most 15-30cm long x 1-2cm wide; stem leaves spirally arranged spirally arranged, linear, sessile, 5-10cm long x 3-5mm wide mid-way up stem; flower heads arranged in a spike, purple, violet or white, opening from top to bottom. | |