Lappula
Lappula | |
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Lappula squarrosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | unplaced |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Subfamily: | Boraginoideae |
Tribe: | Cynoglosseae |
Genus: | Lappula Moench |
Type species | |
Lappula myosotis | |
Species | |
12-14, see text |
Lappula is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family known generally as stickseeds. They are native to the northern hemisphere. These are annual herbs producing funnel-shaped flowers and prickly fruits. One of the best known species is the European stickseed, Lappula squarrosa, which is a notorious noxious weed.
Species include:
- Lappula barbata
- Lappula cenchrusoides - Great Plains stickseed
- Lappula diploloma
- Lappula marginata - margined stickseed
- Lappula occidentalis - flatspine stickseed
- Lappula squarrosa - European stickseed
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