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§1 Plant

Lappula occidentalis (S. Watson) Greene

vernacular flatspine stickseed — species · Boraginaceae


USDA
LAOC3
GBIF
2925753
Rank
species
flatspine stickseed (Lappula occidentalis)
Platephotograph · Trevor Van LoonCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Boraginaceae Juss.
Genus
Lappula
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 163 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 163 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 163 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 2 N
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N
Iowa view state ↗ 9 N
Kansas view state ↗ 62 N
Maine view state ↗ 2 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 20 N
Montana view state ↗ 45 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LAOC3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2925753 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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