Index / Search / Mertensia oblongifolia
§1 Plant — species · Boraginaceae
Mertensia oblongifolia (Nutt.) G. Don
vernacular oblongleaf bluebells
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Mertensia
Native status, by region
- 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 23 of 56 Montana counties.
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Cascade 30013
- Custer 30017
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Pondera 30073
- Powell 30077
- Rosebud 30087
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MEOB ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341217 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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