Blazing Star. Prairie Smoke. Vanilla Sweet Grass. The poetic names seem fitting for a candle collection at Bath & Body Works. The reality is more practical. These are the names of common prairie plants where I live, but I can’t identify them. As a suburban-born kid, botany was never my strength. Now on a local hiking trail, the summer prairie pulses with energy and color, thick with bees. To my untrained eye, it’s a bewildering tangle of flowers. But I have a guide. I feel self-conscious though