Phacelia glandulifera

Sticky phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Sticky phacelia is a California native annual found in the Cascade Range and Great Basin in scrub and juniper woodland at elevations of 800 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces blue to lavender flowers with pale yellow tube up to 7 millimeters long in open clusters. Growing with erect, aromatic stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall that are short-hairy with dark glands, it has a delicate branching habit. Its leaves are deeply lobed to compound, ranging 10 to 50 millimeters long, with oblong to oblanceolate blades having obtuse or toothed segments. The fruit is an ellipsoid capsule 4 to 5.5 millimeters long, bearing 7 to 14 small seeds.

Habitat: Generally sandy soils, scrub, juniper woodland

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 800-2500 m

Bioregions: CaR, GB

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou

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