United States, Minnesota, Stearns, Level terrain along old Highway 52 and County Road 134 (Ridgewood Road) south of the railroad tracks, on the west side of St. Cloud.
45.56169039 -94.25565039
5046116N 402008E; T124N R28W sec7
322 meters
1055 feet
Common in a small (~1-acre) wet prairie / meadow remnant. Small, loose patches in saturated, slightly spongy, silty-organic and somewhat marly soil. Full sun. Flowers blue to whitish-blue.
Associates include Carex tetanica, C. buxbaumii, C. interior, C. granularis, C. cryptolepis, C. lasiocarpa, Eriophorum angustifolium, Glyceria striata, Deschampsia cespitosa, Thalictrum dasycarpum, Solidago riddellii, Lobelia siphilitica, Senecio paupercula, Potentilla fruticosa, Rhamnus frangula, Salix petiolaris, S. bebbiana.