The perennial blazing star

Sunday, July 27, 2014

This wildflower plant has dozens of tiny purple flowers growing around one or more of the plant's tall stems. This flower is named blazing star. The stems of the flower I photographed here were more than 4 feet tall; it was growing in a low area near a woods.

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