Top photo by Gary Kurtz and Bottom photo by Carla Wells
The Shooting Star is a perennial, native Wisconsin wildflower. It reaches a height of 10 to 20 inches. The flowers are purple and sometimes white. Each plant has only one stalk with one to five nodding flowers, an inch wide with five petals. It has toothless, lance-shaped basal leaves that are up to six inches long with rounded tips. It is typically found in glades, rocky wooded slopes, bluff ledges, meadows, and prairies. (EW)