liatris

[ lahy-a-tris, lahy-uh- ]

noun

1. any of various composite plants of the genus Liatris, native to North America, having long spikes of purplish flowers.

liatris

/ laɪˈætrɪs /

noun

1. See blazing star

Word History and Origins

Origin of liatris¹

First recorded in 1810–15; from New Latin; unknown origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of liatris¹

C18: New Latin, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

The mountain mints were magnets for a carnival of lesser-spotted pollinators, the mass planting of switch grass proved an effective hedge, bulky but fine textured, and a gigantic variety of blazing star, Liatris pycnostachya, leaned under the weight of its torchlike seed heads.

From Washington Post

Similar colors will be seen in a kaleidoscope of perennial vegetation, and you can add to that palette the deep dusky grays and blacks found in the foliage, stems and seed heads of baptisia, liatris and coneflowers.

From Washington Post

With imagination, the palette is boundless and includes such things as lavender, catmint, poppies, thyme, coneflowers, liatris, salvias, baptisias, wild quinine, asters, goldenrods, agastaches, sedums, dianthus, phlomis and certain irises.

From Washington Post

It was a carbon monoxide alarm that brought the Canadian authorities to the house in Liatris Drive, a quiet residential street lined with manicured gardens.

From The Guardian

In spring I planted two additional varieties of milkweed, the monarch’s host plant, to supplement the milkweed already nestled among coneflowers and liatris and coreopsis and beebalm.

From New York Times