Manyflower Stickseed Hackelia floribunda Borage family (Boraginaceae)
The seeds commonly hitch a ride on passing hikers and their dogs. The plant is variously considered an , , or . It is most often single-stemmed. It is typically found in mountain clearings and along roadsides. The plant was first named Echinospermum floribundum by Johann Lehmann in 1830 from a specimen collected by Thomas Drummond in Canada in the 1820s. The plant was renamed Hackelia floribunda by Ivan Johnson in 1923.
or short-lived , 12-48" tall, whose clusters of pale blue funnel-shaped flowers are densely arranged on stalks that droop as the flowers mature. Leaves long and rough hairy with on but none on smaller, upper leaves. are 4 tear-drop armed with rows of barbed prickles.
A perennial plant lives and blooms for many years.
A herb is a plant whose stems die back to the ground in the winter.
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production
of seed, within one year, and then dies.
a small nut. A nut being a hard, dry fruit containing only one seed that does not open at maturity.
fruit -- any seed-bearing structure in flowering plants.
It is formed from the ovary after flowering.
biennial -- a plant which lives for two years, producing a basal rosette of leaves
the first year and a full plant, flower, and seed the second year followed by
the death of the entire plant at the end of the second year.
basal leaves -- a leaf that grows lowest on the stem of a plant.
