Phacelia egena

Kaweah river phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Kaweah river phacelia is a California native perennial herb found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, central western California, western Transverse Ranges, and southern Great Basin in slopes, streambanks, flats, chaparral, and woodland at elevations of 50 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces white to cream flowers 5 to 9 millimeters long with a bell-shaped corolla and limb 4 to 8 millimeters in diameter. Growing with ascending stems 15 to 60 centimeters tall that are stiff-hairy and not glandular, it has a robust habit. Its mostly basal leaves feature complex dissected blades 100 to 250 millimeters long with 7 to 11 distinct segments and prominent veins, while cauline leaves remain generally entire. The small ovoid fruit is approximately 3 millimeters long and covered in stiff hairs, containing one to two pitted seeds.

Habitat: Slopes, streambanks, flats, chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: 50-2500 m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCo), CaR, SN, GV, CW (exc CCo), WTR, SnGb.

California counties: Humboldt, Kern, Fresno, Los Angeles, Calaveras, Tulare, Santa Clara, Napa, Ventura, Tehama, Siskiyou, Glenn, Mendocino, Yolo, Amador, Butte, Madera, Inyo, Shasta, Mariposa, Colusa, Sutter, El Dorado, Tuolumne, Solano, San Bernardino, Trinity, San Luis Obispo, Placer, Santa Barbara, Nevada, Sonoma, Modoc, Monterey, Alameda, Yuba, Lake, Marin, Del Norte, San Benito, San Diego

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