Phacelia greenei

Scott valley phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Scott valley phacelia is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges in serpentine soil openings within conifer forests at elevations of 800 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from May to June, this delicate plant produces violet to purple flower lobes with white to pale yellow tube centers in small, rotate blossoms. Growing 2 to 15 centimeters tall with generally erect, wiry stems that are sparsely short-glandular-hairy and sometimes branched at the base, it has a distinctive aromatic quality. Its leaves are narrow and lance-shaped, 8 to 30 millimeters long, with proximal leaves being opposite to subopposite and tapering smoothly to the petiole. The fruit is a small, roughly spherical structure 3 to 4 millimeters long, containing 3 to 4 pitted seeds.

Habitat: Serpentine soils, openings in conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 800-1800 m

Bioregions: KR.

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity

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