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The Asteraceae family

Tall purple fleabane (Erigeron peregrinus) Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada Cobweb thistle (Cirsium occidentale) Charmlee Wilderness, Santa Monica Mountains, California Rayless arnica (Arnica discoidea) Hoo-Koo-e-Koo trail, Blithedale Canyon, Larkspur, California Blazing star (Liatris spicata) Schwarz Prairie, Osceola, Missouri Hairy aster (Aster pilosus) Curtis Prairie, Madison, Wisconsin- Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella) with matching moth, Smoky Valley Ranch, a Nature Conservancy preserve in western Kansas Round-headed gillia (Gillia capitata) Mount Burdell, Novato, California Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella) bud, Coeur d Alene, Idaho Purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia) Konza Prairie Biological Station, Flint Hills, Kansas Slender greenthread (Thelesperma megapotamicum) Smoky Valley Ranch, a Nature Conservancy in western Kansas Common boneset (Eupatorium perfiolatum) Curtis Prairie, Madison, Wisconsin Prairie coneflower (Rudbeckia nitida) Konza Prairie Preserve, Manhattan, Kansas Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella) bud, Coeur d Alene, Idaho Northern yarrow (Achillea borealis) Seward, Alaska Tall purple fleabane (Erigeron peregrinus) Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada Sneezeweed (Helenium puberulum) Bull Head Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, California Tansy aster (Machaeranthera tanacetifolia) with butterly in Smoky Valley Ranch, a Nature Conservancy in western Kansas Silver fleabane (Erigeron argentatus) Snow Canyon State Park, Saint George, Utah Smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) at a roadside rest stop in Wisconsin Stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida) Curtis Prairie, Madison, Wisconsin Tall thistle (Cirsium altissimum) Golden Prairie, Golden City, Missouri Desert chicory (Rafinesquia neomexicana) Anza Borrego Desert, southern California Canyon sunflower (Venegasia carpesioides) Charmlee Wilderness, Santa Monica Mountains, California Thickspike gayfeather (Liatris pycnostachya) Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas Siberian aster (Aster sibericus) Denali National Park, Alaska

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