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Hackelia deflexa
Also called Northern Stickseed
Nodding stickseed is a wild annual or biennial herb in the borage family, native to northern temperate regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It grows in moist woods and thickets and spreads by barbed seeds that cling to fur and clothing.
Hackelia deflexa is a vascular flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names, northern stickseed, nodding stickseed, and American stickseed
It is native in many northern locations from much of Canada (including the province of Alberta, where it is an S3 vulnerable species, and New Brunswick where it is S1 critically imperiled) and the Northern USA as well as in Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.) and in Korea and Japan (where it is critically endangered). It can be found growing in moist woods and thickets in habitat that is shaded, partially shaded, or sunny.
Amethyst stickseed · Greater showy stickseed · Poison Canyon stickseed · California stickseed · Cronquist's stickseed · Cusick's stickseed · Spreading stickseed · Manyflower stickseed · Forest Hound’s Tongue · Jessica sticktight · Pink stickseed · Sierra stickseed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hackelia deflexa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
