"It looks similar to a thistle, and I like the cut flowers for bouquets and as a dried flower too ... North America and attracts a wide variety of pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and moths," ...

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Butterfly species numbers dropped 22% across the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. Habitat loss, climate change, pesticides are the main causes.