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Prairie bluebells
Mertensia lanceolata
About
Mertensia lanceolata, known as prairie bluebells, lance-leaved bluebells, lance-leaved lungwort, and narrow-leaved languid ladies is a species of flowering plant native to the Rocky Mountains and areas of the northern Great Plains in western North America. A herbaceous perennial it has blue-green leaves alternately arranged on its smooth flowering stalk. Its flower buds are pink-purple and become blue as they open.
- Family
- Boraginaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Mertensia lanceolata
- Slug
- mertensia-lanceolata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Mertensia
- Species
- lanceolata
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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