Blue Mistflower in Georgia autumn
Native blue mistflowers, blooming adjacent to a wild-garden pond.
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 October 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
"Conoclinium coelestinum — commonly known as blue mistflower, mistflower wild ageratum, or blue boneset — is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America, growing in moist soils, wood edges, sandy woodlands, wet meadows, and stream banks.
The plant grows to a height of 1 to 2½ feet (30 to 76 cm) with round, light green stems. The opposite-growing leaves are ovate to triangular in shape, with blunt teeth. It produces flowers from late summer until frost. Flat-topped clusters, or panicles, of blue, purple, or lavender flowerheads, measuring 1 to 3 inches (3 to 8 cm), are located at the end of the stems. Each flowerhead consists of approximately 40 to 50 disk florets, each with a tiny, tubular corolla [collection of all petals in a flower] featuring 5 spreading lobes."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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— Focus bracket (9 images): Elements Plus.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Blue Mistflower in Georgia autumn
Native blue mistflowers, blooming adjacent to a wild-garden pond.
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 October 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
"Conoclinium coelestinum — commonly known as blue mistflower, mistflower wild ageratum, or blue boneset — is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America, growing in moist soils, wood edges, sandy woodlands, wet meadows, and stream banks.
The plant grows to a height of 1 to 2½ feet (30 to 76 cm) with round, light green stems. The opposite-growing leaves are ovate to triangular in shape, with blunt teeth. It produces flowers from late summer until frost. Flat-topped clusters, or panicles, of blue, purple, or lavender flowerheads, measuring 1 to 3 inches (3 to 8 cm), are located at the end of the stems. Each flowerhead consists of approximately 40 to 50 disk florets, each with a tiny, tubular corolla [collection of all petals in a flower] featuring 5 spreading lobes."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
▶ For a larger image, press 'L' (without the quotation marks).
— Follow on Instagram: @tcizauskas.
— Follow on Threads: @tcizauskas.
— Follow on Bluesky: @tcizauskas.bsky.social.
▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Focus bracket (9 images): Elements Plus.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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▶ This image is licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You may copy and/or distribute it in any medium or format, but:
— only in unadapted form
— only for noncommercial purposes
— and only so long as attribution is given (via link and/or name).
▶ Commercial use is forbidden except with explicit permission.