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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Boraginaceae
Hackelia virginiana (L.) I.M.Johnst.
beggar's-lice, stickseed, wild comfrey
Hackelia: named after J. Hackel (1783-1869), Czech botanist
virginiana: of Virginia
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, biennial, 1'-3' tall forb, stout, many upper branches |
| Flower: | white to bluish, 5-parted, 1/8" wide, dish to funnel-shaped, tube shorter than the lobes; inflorescence of many, paired, spreading clusters (racemes) of stalked flowers becoming 2"-6" long, leafless near the top but with leaf bracts toward the bottom often alternating with the flowers; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | short-stalked, rounded, sticky nutlet with prickles on its back  |
| Leaf: | lower leaves large, ovate, narrowing toward the stalk, upper smaller and becoming stalkless |
| Habitat: | upland woods |
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