This planted perennial grows up to 8 inches tall. This is one of our first flowers to bloom in the spring each year. These flowers have long, thin, succulent leaves and purple flower stalks with one or two elegant, bright blue, nodding flowers.
Thriving where it was planted long ago, flowering from the last days of March to early April. In Fontenlle Forest, locally common along History Trail near the abandoned Baldwin homestead.
This popular garden flower was introduced from Russia. It usually thrives where it has been planted or where it has escaped from cultivation. When all the old kitchen utensils have rusted away (C), this wildflower will likely continue to emerge each year as the only sign of habitation there long, long ago.
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