liatris punctata(n = noun.plant) dotted gayfeather - herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico;
is a kind of blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather, snakeroot

aplysia punctata, genus liatris, liatris, liatris pycnostachya, monarda punctata