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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Boraginaceae
Lappula redowskii (Hornem.) Greene var. redowskii
western stickseed
Lappula: diminutive of lappa for "bur"
redowskii: for Ivan Ivanovich Redowsky (1774-1807)
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 8"-32" tall forb, rough, hairy |
| Flower: | blue, 5-parted, 1/8" wide, funnel shape, stalked, tube length about the same as the petal's width, stamens shorter than the petals, linear to lance-like bracts; inflorescence a many-branched, helix-shaped cluster (cyme) at the ends of the branches; blooms May-Sept. |
| Fruit: | nutlet, stalked, prickles on margins in 1 row and distinct to the base |
| Leaf: | stalkless |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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