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I know! They're gigantic!
The only difference is that it doesn't seem to be growing in the "tower"-like form. Though I suspect this may be from regular lawn mowing.
Thank you for the recommendation! I took the time searching through Wikipedia, google, and a few other databases but was unable to find anything from the figwort family that matched. I finally just googled "purple flower" and sifted through until I found that it looked exactly like wild foxglove!
Absolutely gorgeous! I have always adored this breed in particular.
Indeed, it was a male. Those antennae were larger than the end of my thumb!
Thanks Leuba! I have never seen one of these moths in my area so I was fairly excited.