This widespread perennial of southeastern states is "highly variable, and represented by a number of forms" (B), but these may not be worth recognizing (Y). Virtually all colls. of this species in Ky. are referable to var. simulans Fern. Colls. from HICK and perhaps CARL (MUR) are referable to var. mineolana F. Wimmer. Typical var. puberula occurs on the eastern Coastal Plain and Piedmont, and is unknown in Ky. The more southern species, L. georgiana McVaugh (= L. amoena Michx. var. glandulifera Gray), has been reported from Ky. (B, F) but apparently based on misidentified puberula (M).