Dotted Blazingstar / Liatris punctata

Seen when a group of us was lucky enough to spend the day, on 3 August 2013, hiking on the Nature Conservancy land at the Beynon Ecological Preserve, a long drive east of Calgary. This area is not far from Drumheller, in the Badlands of Alberta. Dotted Blazingstar is not found in many places within the city, so it was nice to come across it on this botanizing day. Not an easy flower to photograph, I find, as most blooms seem to be very unbalanced and not very photogenic. However, I have very few photos of this plant, and wanted to add it to my Beynon album, anyway.