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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Boraginaceae
Lappula squarrosa (Retz.) Durmort.
European stickseed, spiny stickseed, two-row stickseed
Lappula: diminutive of lappa for "bur"
squarrosa: squarrose for "spreading horizontally; curved at the ends"
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 8"-32" tall forb, roughly-hairy |
| Flower: | blue, 5-parted, 1/8" wide, funnel-shaped, stalked, tube length about the same as the lobe's width, stamens shorter than the petals, linear to lance-like bracts; inflorescence a many-branched, curving cluster (cyme) at the ends of the branches; blooms May-Sept. |
| Fruit: | stalked nutlet with prickles in 2-3 rows along the margins |
| Leaf: | stalkless |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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