Phacelia affinis

Limestone phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Limestone phacelia is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Madre, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, White and Inyo Mountains, and Desert regions in open, sandy or gravelly areas at elevations of 500 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white to lavender flowers in small bell-shaped corollas 3 to 5 millimeters long. Growing 6 to 30 centimeters tall with erect stems that are short-hairy and minutely glandular, it has an aromatic quality with spreading hairs. Its leaves are deeply lobed or compound, measuring 8 to 70 millimeters long, with narrowly oblong blades and entire lobes. The fruit is an oblong to ellipsoid structure 4 to 6 millimeters long, bearing 15 to 30 seeds.

Habitat: Open, sandy or gravelly areas

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 500-3400 m

Bioregions: s SCoRI (Caliente Mtn), TR, PR, W&ampI, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Diego, Riverside, Inyo, San Luis Obispo, Mono, Kern, Santa Barbara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.