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Photo Details August 11, 2004 - Silver Lake, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah - ©Nicky Davis Characteristics Purplish-Blue hooded flower in a sometimes droopy spike.  Flowers start blooming at the bottom of the spike  and  move up. The plant grows form 2 to 6 feet tall.  Leaves toward the bottom are lobed palmately. Back to Top