"Savannas are magnificent wildflower gardens.
Something is always blooming grass pink orchids, rose pogonia, rosebud
orchids, ladies' tresses. In the heat of the summer the fringed orchids
are torches through the meadows. Blue-eyed and yellow eyed grass, white
eyed sedge. Meadow beauties. Fall brings on the composites, purple
spires of liatris, also called blazing star, brown rayless sunflowers,
goldenrod, bigelowia and coreopsis. The aster balduina pools like
orange juice in the wettest places and clumps of pearl-tipped hatpins
stick the carpet of forbs to the flat earth. White violets hover low."
- Excerpt from Janisse Ray's "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood"
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