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Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Veatch's Blazingstar blooming, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino Mountains, May 2, 2025.

More photos of flora and fauna:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#VeatchsBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

Veatch's Blazingstar blooming, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino Mountains, May 2, 2025.

More photos of flora and fauna:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#VeatchsBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

May 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM

Ron (GuitarGuitjoGuy)

@ron-guitarguy.bsky.social

I took a dam walk today, atop the dam at Lake Pueblo State Park. - May 23, 2025

Blanketfowers, Blackfoot Daisy, Threadleaf Ragwort, Blazingstars...
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May 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Monarch Monday! A Monarch butterfly slowly flies around & through a field of blooming Prairie Blazingstars on a Dakota prairie.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #butterflies #monarch #wildflowers #pollinators

August 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@dbcurren.bsky.social

#DenseBlazingStar, #RougeNationalUrbanPark, #Toronto
#FlowerSky #bloomscrolling #flowers #blazingstars

A vertical purple flower in the Rouge National Urban Park on the eastern fringes of Toronto.

August 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Wildflower Wednesday! A field of tall, purple, Prairie Blazingstars growing out on the Dakota prairie.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #wildflowers #prairie #northdakota

July 22, 2026 at 5:15 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Monarch Monday! A lone Monarch butterfly has it’s pick of beautiful wildflowers to feed on in a sea of Prairie Blazingstars.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #butterflies #monarch #wildflowers #pollinators

August 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Saturday Selfie! Wandering through a field of Prairie Blazingstars. I could stay here awhile…
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #wildflowers #prairie #wandering #northdakota

July 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

The mesmerizing effect of staring into a field of summer bright, green prairie grasses & tall, purple Prairie Blazingstars swaying in the warm Summer wind. Your Sunday Prairie Zen. Enjoy!
#prairiezen #wildflowers #prairie #summer #northdakota

August 23, 2026 at 11:48 AM

Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Giant Blazingstar blooming, San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest, July 20, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

Giant Blazingstar blooming, San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest, July 20, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

July 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM

Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Giant Blazingstar blooming, San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest, July 20, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

July 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM

Kate Duvall

@kateduvall.bsky.social

NEW in our shop!
A beautiful book of Lone Star Quilts!
#ShiningStar #Quilts #QuiltPatterns #QuiltBook #LoneStar #QuiltingTutorial #BrokenStar #BlazingStars #YardageCharts #Patchwork #freeshipping
@2Fun4Words

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March 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

A Common Eastern Bumblebee has its pick of Prairie Blazingstars to collect pollen from.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #bees #wildflowers #pollinators #nothdakota

August 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

The lush green grasses of the Dakota Tallgrass Prairie are dotted with tall spikes of bright purple from flowering Prairie Blazingstars. Your Sunday morning Prairie Zen. Enjoy!
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #prairiezen #photography #nature #wildflowers #northdakota

August 2, 2026 at 11:13 AM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Monarch Monday! Monarch butterflies in a field of tall Prairie Blazingstars. Fluttering around, feeding from one blazingstar to another out on the Dakota prairie.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #butterflies #monarch #wildflowers #pollinators

July 27, 2026 at 4:28 PM

Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Whitestem Blazingstar budding and blooming, Crowley Lake, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, May 11, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#WhitestemBlazingstar
#CrowleyLake
#SequoiaNationalForest

Whitestem Blazingstar budding and blooming, Crowley Lake, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, May 11, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#WhitestemBlazingstar
#CrowleyLake
#SequoiaNationalForest

May 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM

toxicojendron radicans

@toxicoradica.northsky.social

🌸 southern blazingstar 🌿
Liatris squarrulosa

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky

a composite flower with over a dozen light, bright purplish pink disk florets and no ray florets. each disk floret is has a tubular corolla with five pointed, spreading lobes, and a long, bifuracted style that runs through a dark purple fused stamen tube. reddish purple bristles run up along the outside of the corolla.

several flowerheads near the top of a tall stem, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink, tubular disk florets with five pointed lobes & long split styles. below the florets, there are rows and rows of green & purple hoary, rounded phyllaries that curve out away from the columnar flowerhead.

two southern blazingstars growing in a patch of savannah among grasses, in front of some slenderstalk beeblossoms. the blazingstars are chest-high and leaning to the right. many lance-shaped green leaves grow alternately on the tall stems, many with budding flowerheads on their axils. the flowers are successively more developed nearer the top of the stems, which terminate in a few flowerheads in full bloom, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink florets with long styles.

September 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM

Eric R. Eaton

@bugeric.bsky.social

Blazingstars, Mentzelia spp., are among my favorite wildflowers. Near Liberal, Kansas, USA, today. Yes, the name of the town is an oxymoron for this conservative state. #wildflowers #botany #plantsky #bloomscrolling

Large, creamy white flower with ten narrow petals radiating from the center, along with long, stringy white filaments at the center. Unopened buds, and gray-green foliage in background. Beige, sandy soil is visible, too, but out of focus.

October 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Spending some time with a Bottle/Closed Gentian & the Prairie Blazingstars, sunflowers, Indiangrass, & Big Bluestem. Your Sunday morning Prairie Zen. Volume up & enjoy! #prairiezen #wildflowers #flowers #northdakota #prairie

August 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Spend some time with a Two-spotted Bumblebee as it collects pollen from Prairie Blazingstars that are blooming on the North Dakota Tallgrass Prairie right now. Your Friday Prairie Zen. Enjoy!
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #prairiezen #photography #nature #bees #wildflowers

July 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

It is Friday. Come spend it on the Dakota Tallgrass Prairie in a field of tall Prairie Blazingstars & some feeding Monarch butterflies. Your Friday Prairie Zen. Enjoy!
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #prairiezen #photography #nature #wildflowers #monarchs #butterflies #prairie #northdakota

July 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Monarch Monday continues! A beautiful, nearly perfect Monarch butterfly feeds on the sweet nectar of the tall Prairie Blazingstar. It flies from plant to plant in a field covered in purple by 100’s of blooming Blazingstars.
www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #butterflies

July 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM

Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Giant Blazingstar budding and blooming, Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, July 14, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

Giant Blazingstar budding and blooming, Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, July 14, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#SanBernardinoNationalForest
#SanBernardinoMountains

July 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Friday afternoon. Sit among the prairie grasses & the very tall Prairie Blazingstars of North Dakota’s last Tallgrass Prairies. Your Friday Prairie Zen. Volume up & enjoy! #prairiezen #wildflowers #flowers #northdakota #prairie #grasslands

August 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM

prairieguy2017.bsky.social

@prairieguy2017.bsky.social

Feels like Fall on the Northern Prairie today. 😊 Sit & enjoy some Sunflowers, Blazingstars, Goldenrods, Prairie Clovers, Prairie Grasses, & Coneflower heads blowing in late summer/early fall wind. Your Friday Prairie Zen. Volume up & enjoy! #prairiezen #wildflowers #summer #fall #minnesota #prairie

September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Donald Grimm, Ph.D.

@donaldgrimm.bsky.social

Giant Blazingstar blooming, Mammoth Lakes, Mammoth Mountain, Inyo National Forest, August 13, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#MammothLakes
#MammothMountain
#InyoNationalForest

Giant Blazingstar blooming, Mammoth Lakes, Inyo National Forest, August 13, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Blazingstar
#Blazingstars
#GiantBlazingstar
#MammothLakes
#InyoNationalForest

August 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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