''Hackelia floribunda'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names large-flowered stickseed and manyflower stickseed. The plant is native to much of the western half of

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

, in Canada and the Midwestern and

Western United States The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...

. It is most often found in areas which are wet during the springtime, such as meadows, wetlands, and riparian areas. ''Hackelia floribunda'' is a lush biennial or perennial herb with hairy stems reaching a maximum height of about . They emerge as a leafy clump, surrounded by many smooth lance-shaped leaves up to long. There are few leaves at the ends of the stems, which hold cyme

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s of blue flowers. Each flower has five lobes with petallike appendages at their bases. The fruit is a tiny, mildly prickly nutlet.

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Calflora Database: ''Hackelia floribunda'' (Manyflower stickseed)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Hackelia floribunda''UC CalPhotos gallery
floribunda Flora of Canada Flora of the Western United States Flora of the United States Flora of the South-Central United States Flora of California Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the Rocky Mountains Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Boraginoideae-stub