liatris pycnostachya

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   perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers

   Synonymsdense blazing star

   Broaderblazing star

Questions about liatris pycnostachya

What does liatris pycnostachya mean?

liatris pycnostachya means "perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers".

What is another word for liatris pycnostachya?

Close synonyms include dense blazing star. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liatris pycnostachya a common word?

liatris pycnostachya is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.