Phacelia crenulata

Cleftleaf wildheliotrope

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Cleftleaf wildheliotrope is a California native annual found in rocky and open habitats across desert and mountain regions at elevations ranging from low to moderate elevations. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white to purple flowers with a bell-shaped corolla and distinctive white tube transitioning to purple throat. Growing with erect, stiff-hairy stems 20 to 80 centimeters tall that are aromatic and sparingly branched, the plant has a distinctive appearance. Its leaves are oblong to elliptic, 20 to 80 millimeters long, with crenate or deeply lobed margins that become progressively smaller toward the stem's upper portion. The fruit is small, ovoid to spheric, and produces generally four seeds with finely textured surfaces.

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial, Kern, Ventura, Mono

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