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**"Blazing Star" (photo taken by Ellie Bryant)**


==The Blazing Star is a purple flower that has prickley leaves in between its flowers. It has one stalk on which many flowers grow. Each flower grows opposite the one next to it. The blazing Star grows in praries, gardens and Eastern United States. It reaches heights between two and six feet high and its germaination is between twenty and forty-five days. The Blazing Star's growing season is between June and September. Here are a few species that look like the Blazing Star and can trick you, the Purple Loosestrife, it is purple and leafy but had many stalks and not just one like the "star"and is mostly found in wetlands or wet ditches. Another plant that can be confused for the "star" is the Gayfeather, they both have one stalk that flowers grow off of but the Gayfeather does not have prickly leaves like the "star" does. The Blazing Star is unique in how the flowers grow opposite eachother and that it has spiked leaves in between the flowers.==

==The Blazing Star is a member of the composite family, and one of the most commonly photographed flower. The "stars" life span is moderate to that of most others. It also has a moderate growth rate, but a low reproduction rate because the seeds are not plentiful. The Blazing Star can not survive in temperatures below -33 degrees ferhenheit, it also has a medium tolerance rate when in drought or with low water supplies. The Blazing Star is intolerant to being in the shade it likes the sun. The "stars" fruit or seed is brown and not plentiful.==

==To grow a Blazing Star you would have to put it in the sun and bury it at minumin 14 inches in the ground. You should bury it in soil with the coarse fine and medium texture. It needs to be where it can recieve 16-30 inches of rain per year. The Blazing Star is a pretty plant that is unusal and unique.==

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