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Liatris spicata (L.) Willd.
Engl.: button snakeroot, colic-root, dense blazingstar, devil's bit, gay-feather, spiked gayfeather.
Deu.: Prachtscharte.
Suom.: punatähkä.
Bot. syn.: Lacinaria spicata (L.) Kuntze.
Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Diuretics.
Classic texts: Madaus 1938.
Classic texts: Journals: TNEMA 1882-1883.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Scudder 1870.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Felter 1922.
Classic texts: Ellingwood 1919.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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