Weed
flatspine stickseed, desert stickseed, western stickseed, flat-spine sheepburr
NutletNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints).
SpatulateSpatulate:
Having a narrow base and rounded apex. Pear-shaped.
Brown
TuberculateTuberculate:
Having small pimple-like protuberances.
with a crown of spines with recurved hooks on their ends on the dorsalDorsal:
Upper side or back of a seed or fruit.
side
NutletNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints). has a narrow scar on the ventralVentral:
Adaxial; of the side of an organ facing the axis (compare dorsal).
side and spines that follow the dorsalDorsal:
Upper side or back of a seed or fruit. margin of the nutletNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints)..
The nutletsNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints). of Lappula occidentalis var. occidentalis and those of L. squarrosa are very similar.
Not listed
Not included
Boraginaceae
Lappula occidentalis var. occidentalis (S. Watson) Greene
Lappula echinata Gilib. var. occidentalis (S. Watson) B. Boivin
Lappula redowskii auct. non (Hornem.) Greene Lappula redowskii (Hornem.) Greene var. desertorum (Greene) I.M. Johnst.
Lappula redowskii (Hornem.) Greene var. occidentalis (S. Watson) Rydb.
Lappula redowskii (Hornem.) Greene var. redowskii
