Rewilding My Lot

When I recently tidied up my native wildflower meadow, I found this tiny volunteer Texas Star aka Meadow Pink (Sabatia campestris). It’s an annual that readily self-seeds so hopefully I’ll see more next year.

Initially I struggled with the ID because although this plant when I first saw it (photo below) looked in almost every aspect like a Texas Star, the flowers had only four petals instead of five. I cannot explain why, but a few days later those particular flowers had gone and a new bloom on the same plant (photo above) had the “proper” five petals.