NYC Bluemink

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Flossflower, also known as Bluemink or Ageratum, Ageratum houstonianum.

Photographed while waiting for the bus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NYC.

Image: GrrlScientist, 18 May 2009 [larger view].

These tiny bushy plants are members of the sunflower family and are native to the west coast of Central and South America. It's amazing that something so small is related to something that is as large as a sunflower!

If you like tiny composites, you'll love Licorice Marigold, Tagetes micrantha. When they bloom this summer I'll try to get a macro photo including something for scale.