Phacelia bicolor

Twocolor phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Twocolor phacelia is a California native annual found in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert in sandy or alkaline scrub environments at elevations of 700 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces lavender to purple flowers with yellow corolla tubes in funnel- to bell-shaped blossoms 8 to 18 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 6 to 40 centimeters tall that are generally branched at the base and covered in short hairs, it has a distinctly aromatic quality. Its leaves are 20 to 60 millimeters long, one to two times compound, with leaflets that are toothed or irregularly lobed. The fruit is an ovoid structure 4 to 6 millimeters long with a short, stiff-hairy beak.

Habitat: Sandy or alkaline soils, scrub

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 700-3400 m

Bioregions: SNH (e slope), GB, DMoj

California counties: Inyo, Lassen, Mono, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Butte, Kern, Siskiyou, Riverside

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