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Christine Hanrahan

Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)

Fletcher Wildlife Garden

Growing in profusion in the Butterfly Meadow. These odd flowers do not open, but they are pollinated. I have seen bumble bees work their way in, and one site I checked notes that bumble bees may the only insect tough enough to push their way into these flowers and in the process help pollinate them.

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