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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Jeweled Blazingstar

Jeweled Blazingstar

Bloom Season: June - August

Habitat: It thrives in dry, open, and often steep or rocky habitats, favoring stony plains, sagebrush hillsides, and roadsides.

Photography Notes: Susceptible to a breeze

Credits: Bob Falcone, 15 June

Some 60-70, see text

Mentzelia is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Loasaceae, native to the Americas. The genus comprises annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous plants and a few shrubs.

They are commonly called blazing stars or stickleafs; other names include evening stars and moonflowers.

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Jeweled Blazingstar (native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.