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Purple Milkweed (Asclepias cordifolia)
Purple Milkweed flowers are quite small next to the plant's plus-sized leaves, any one of which is roomy enough to host an ant Woodstock. (You can see a few blooms edging into the right side of the photo.) The pink interloper at top left is Farewell to Spring.
This Photo: Above the Fresno River near Oakhurst, late June