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Greater showy stickseed

Hackelia bella

Also called Beautiful Stickseed

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SW. Oregon to NW. California
Climate
temperate

About

Hackelia bella is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name greater showy stickseed.

It is native to the northern California Coast Ranges and the Klamath Mountains in northeastern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is found in yellow pine forest, red fir forest habitats.

Other Hackelia plants

Amethyst stickseed · Poison Canyon stickseed · California stickseed · Cronquist's stickseed · Cusick's stickseed · Nodding stickseed · Spreading stickseed · Manyflower stickseed · Forest Hound’s Tongue · Jessica sticktight · Pink stickseed · Sierra stickseed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hackelia bella by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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