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    Photo of blue phlox (wild sweet William) plant with flowers

    Blue Phlox (Wild Sweet William)

    Phlox divaricata
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    Common Milkweed

    Asclepias syriaca
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    False Dragonhead (Obedient Plant)

    Physostegia virginiana
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    Subfamily Asclepiadoideae
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    New World Asters (American Asters)

    Symphyotrichum spp. (formerly Aster spp.)
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    Northern Fog Fruit

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