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This is one of my favorite wildflowers, for its sheer delicacy and beautiful color. This photo is a close-up - the individual flowers are about 1/4" long. I was not able to get a decent picture showing the leaves as well. The leaves are very narrow, flat, and about 6-10" long. The leaves first appear in spring, the flowers appear about June-July. They are not exactly rare, but are "patchy", preferring meadows and open woods, growing iin both the mountains and the piedmont.. The color of the flowers can vary from white to pink to purple. According to RAB (see below), the darker flowers seem to be limited to high-elevation locations. I found this patch at about 5000 ft in a small meadow.They are edible, but I have never picked one.