Phacelia barnebyana

Barneby's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Barneby's phacelia is a rare California native annual found in the western and eastern desert mountains, particularly the Clark Mountain Range, in limestone scree at elevations of 1,600 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale violet flowers in narrow bell-shaped corollas with white to yellow tubes, approximately 3 to 5 millimeters long. Growing 5 to 30 centimeters tall with erect stems that are simple to slightly branched at the base and covered in minute glandular hairs, it has an aromatic quality. Its leaves are generally ovate, 5 to 20 millimeters long, with blades smaller than their petioles and edges that are entire to obscurely toothed. The fruit is an ellipsoid structure 3.5 to 5.5 millimeters long, containing 15 to 20 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Limestone scree

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1600-2700 m

Bioregions: W&ampI, ne DMtns (Clark Mtn Range)

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