Mid August and all over the neighborhood Naked Ladies are popping up or out…

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In the sun, under trees, red clay, or carefully tended composted areas.  It does not matter.  Just when we have given up on the nice early summer foliage, up pops these bare stems with beautiful blossoms.  My  country cousins have always called them Naked Ladies.  What do you know them as?