Index / Search / Lappula occidentalis var. occidentalis
§1 Plant — variety · Boraginaceae
Lappula occidentalis (S. Watson) Greene var. occidentalis
vernacular flatspine stickseed
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Lappula
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§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.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 44 of 56 Montana counties.
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LAOCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/6396309 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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