| Blazing Star common names: Liatris, Gay-feather or Button snakeroot is a genus of ornamental plants in the Asteraceae family, native to North America, Mexico, and the Bahamas.These plants are used as a popular summer flowers for bouquets. They are perennials, surviving the winter in the form of corms. Blazing Star species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia gloriosa, Schinia sanguinea (both of which feed exclusively on the genus), Schinia tertia and Schinia trifascia. |
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