Oh....this is the famous and very rare red phneumoinious lictus, Steve (lol). Joking aside, You have presented this beauty with all its' splendor. I like your positioning in frame. Cheerio....
Smile, without a reason why. Love, as if you were a child, Smile, no matter what they tell you Don't listen to a word they say Cause life is beautiful that way. (From the film "Life Is Beautiful")
It sure looks like a cone flower but the leaves are wrong - they look like geranium leaves. Perhaps it a lonely little coneflower in a geranium patch ?
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