Prairie blazing-star (Liatris pycnostachia) and rattlesnake-master (Eryngium yuccifolium) at the prairie restoration area at Weiler-Leopold Nature Reserve. These species are native to Indiana prairies.
Most plants with long thin leaves with parallel leaf veins are monocots, like grasses, and lilies. One might think from looking at the leaves of rattlesnake-master that it would also be a monocot, but Eryngium is really in the carrot plant-family (Apiaceae) and so is a dicot.
Photos taken July 16, 2015.
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