Index / Search / Mentzelia nuda
§1 Plant
Mentzelia nuda (Pursh) Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular bractless blazingstar — species · Loasaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Loasaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Mentzelia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 111 counties across 8 states/territories§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 111 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Montana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Arthur 31005
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Boyd 31015
- Buffalo 31019
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Garden 31069
- Grant 31075
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Lincoln 31111
- McPherson 31117
- Morrill 31123
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 21 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MENU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5331460 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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