Savanna blazing star, Liatris scariosa. Native of north America, introduced by Scottish plant collector Thomas Drummond to Glasgow Botanic Garden. Northern liatris, Liatris borealis. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.

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