Two new wildflowers

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Along the Crown Lake road we also found two wildflowers I don't remember seeing before. Even without a field guide at hand, I guessed the genera of both immediately, which is satisfying in itself. Back home I identified the species with fair certainty, but if anyone knows better let me know. The first one, American knapweed, Centaurea americana, is splendid, its flower larger than the closely related bachelor's-buttons (remember I posted a different Centaurea from Goderich last week). The Indian-tobacco, Lobelia inflata, is less showy than others in its genus, but lovely to my eye.