Phacelia davidsonii
Davidson's phacelia
Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native
Davidson's phacelia is a California native annual found in central and southern California mountain ranges including Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, Santa Lucia, and Transverse Ranges in sandy to rocky chaparral and conifer forest at elevations of 150 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces violet-lobed white flowers with delicate rotate or bell-shaped corollas 7 to 15 millimeters wide. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall that are sparsely hairy and sometimes branched at the base, it has a low-growing and delicate structure. Its leaves range from 8 to 70 millimeters long, with proximal leaves deeply lobed or compound and distal leaves entire to moderately lobed, featuring elliptic to oblanceolate blades. The fruit is a small ovoid structure 4 to 7 millimeters long, containing 7 to 15 tiny pitted seeds.
Habitat: Sandy to rocky soils, slopes, chaparral, conifer forest
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: 150-2500 m
Bioregions: c&s SN, Teh, SCoRO (Big Pine Mtn), TR, PR.
California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Inyo, Tulare, 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.