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Comments: Heller's Blazing Star is an extremely rare and attractive native wildflower. Its habitat consists of rocky outcrops, ledges, cliffs and balds at high elevations in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is found growing in only seven sites. Heller's Blazing Star was known from two additional locations, but due to residential and recreational developments, plants have not been seen at these sites for the past 50 years, in spite of extensive searches. This species was probably never common due to its very restricted and isolated habitat requirements. Because there are so few left in the wild, Heller's Blazing Star is quite vulnerable to seemingly minor threats such as trampling by hikers, climbers, and sightseers.

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comments: Heller's Blazing Star is an extremely rare and attractive native wildflower. Its habitat consists of rocky outcrops, ledges, cliffs and balds at high elevations in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is found growing in only seven sites. Heller's Blazing Star was known from two additional locations, but due to residential and recreational developments, plants have not been seen at these sites for the past 50 years, in spite of extensive searches. This species was probably never common due to its very restricted and isolated habitat requirements. Because there are so few left in the wild, Heller's Blazing Star is quite vulnerable to seemingly minor threats such as trampling by hikers, climbers, and sightseers.

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native range: Mountains of North Carolina