| The flower in this picture is commonly referred to as a Harebell. You know, the rabbit's bell. One fact about this flower that I really find beautiful, is that it grows in the most desolate of places, where often you find practically no flowers at all. Particularly on wave clabbered rocks of Lake Superior's shores. You find this on rock outcroppings in bluffs high above the Mississippi. You find it in seemingly hot, dry prairies. I have found it in canoe-only accessible shear rock faces with no soil at all. The flowers last longer than usual for native plants, or at least seem to. The plant's stem is very thin, but also very strong and flexible. And finally there is the color, from the near violet blue to a blue near-white pastel. They vary from one area to another. In the evening twilight, these tiny flowers, usually around a half-inch by a half-inch, seem to glow a wonderful blue. Quite often, in a prairie, you will see tens upon tens of them nearby in late summer. |
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