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Apiaceae

 17-Eryngium habit

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A beautiful and bizarre looking prairie plant is Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium. The leaves are parallel-veined, and resemble those of a yucca plant (a monocot).
Photo by K. R. Robertson at Gensburg-Markham Prairie, Cook County, Illinois.
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