Index / Search / Mentzelia nuda
§1 Plant
Mentzelia nuda (Pursh) Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular bractless blazingstar — species · Loasaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Loasaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Mentzelia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 202 counties across 11 states/territories§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.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 202 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Arapahoe 08005
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Cheyenne 08017
- Clear Creek 08019
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- Denver 08031
- El Paso 08041
- Elbert 08039
- Fremont 08043
- Gilpin 08047
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- Kiowa 08061
- Kit Carson 08063
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- Sedgwick 08115
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Montana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Arthur 31005
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Boyd 31015
- Buffalo 31019
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Garden 31069
- Grant 31075
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Lincoln 31111
- McPherson 31117
- Morrill 31123
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 21 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Collingsworth 48087
- Cottle 48101
- Crosby 48107
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Fisher 48151
- Garza 48169
- Goliad 48175
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hockley 48219
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- King 48269
- Kleberg 48273
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- McCulloch 48307
- Medina 48325
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
- San Patricio 48409
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Swisher 48437
- Taylor 48441
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Wilson 48493
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MENU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5331460 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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