A face only a mother could love? :rollhappy: I think this actually is a very stately looking flower in its own way.
I know your frustration. Labor Day Weekend 1994 I found a huge colony of these in Great Smoky Mountains NP. There were hundreds of flowering stems in a very small area in perfect bloom - one problem, no camera! I went back four years later and all I found were half a dozen plants, all but one sterile, and the last flower had faded a short time earlier.