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Neon Wildflower

The Purple Prairie Clover has a thimble-shaped flower head ½ to 2½ inches long at the top of the stem with the flowers blooming from the bottom of the spike up. Tiny 5-petaled purple flowers with orange or yellow-tipped stamens are densely packed around the cone. The calyx is woolly, dull gray to rusty red, and easily visible in the upper spike where flowers have not yet bloomed. Best viewed large.

 

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Uploaded on July 9, 2021
Taken on July 7, 2021