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Jessica sticktight

Hackelia micrantha

Also called Blue hackelia, Blue stickseed, Small flowered stickseed, Jessica's stickseed, Meadow stickseed, Jessica stickseed, Meadow forget-me-not

Jessica sticktight
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Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Colorado

About

Hackelia micrantha is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names Jessica sticktight and Jessica's stickseed.

Where it grows

It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta, southeast through Montana into Colorado and Utah, and south to the Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada.

Other Hackelia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hackelia micrantha 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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