Wildflowers Identified: Prairie Blazing-Star/Prairie Gayfeather

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Prairie Blazing-Star/Prairie Gayfeather has these characteristics:

• in a head (7 or more petals): cluster of stalkless (or nearly stalkless) flowers
  
• several flowers on stem
  
• cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
  
• 1/8 to 3/8 inches flower width
  
• 3/8 to 5/8 inches flower width
  
• pink to red flower color
  
• blue to purple flower color
  
• blooms in July
  
• blooms in August
  
• blooms in September or later
  
• plant height two feet or more
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
  
• alternate leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• smooth leaf edges
  
• parallel leaf veins
  
• simple leaves over 5 times as long as wide
  
• stem is hairy or spiny
  

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