Lithophragma parviflorum
This little jewel was rescued... from my front yard. Prairie stars are perennials, but like the other tiny annual plants in Palouse prairie, they form an understory blanket, and bits of this blanket remain in the area, sometimes in surprising places. Out in front of our house, under an old silver maple, there was a patch of this, and for several years I would divide the patch and move a chunk of it to some spot out in the prairie. A couple of years ago, I was able to identify a few of these as they went to seed, and the seed is the most impossibly-tiny little bits you could imagine.
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