Phacelia grisea

Grey phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Grey phacelia is a California native annual herb found in southern Coast Ranges and western Transverse Ranges in gravelly chaparral slopes at elevations of 300 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white or pale lavender flowers in widely bell-shaped clusters approximately 5 to 7 millimeters long. Growing with erect, branched stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall that are stiff-hairy and finely glandular, it has a distinctive upright form. Its leaves are lanceolate to widely ovate, 10 to 80 millimeters long, with toothed or lobed edges. The fruit is a small ovoid structure 4 to 5 millimeters long, covered in short glandular hairs.

Habitat: Gravelly slopes, generally in chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 300-1200 m

Bioregions: SCoRO, w WTR.

California counties: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Ventura

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