Phacelia bolanderi

Bolander's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bolander's phacelia is a California native perennial found in northwestern California on bluffs, canyons, and slopes at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces pale blue to purple flowers 10 to 12 millimeters long with a brown throat, arranged in open panicle-like clusters. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems 12 to 100 centimeters tall, covered in stiff, appressed hairs and minute glands, it has a distinctively textured appearance. Its leaves are broadly oblong to ovate, 30 to 120 millimeters long, with coarsely toothed or two-lobed bases and sparse stiff hairs. The fruit is ovoid, 6 to 8 millimeters long, and contains 30 to 60 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Bluffs, canyons, slopes

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: NW

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