Phacelia hubbyi

Hubby's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Hubby's phacelia is a California native annual found in northern Santa Cruz Island, northern Southern California Coast, and Western Transverse Ranges on open gravelly or rocky slopes, chaparral, and grassland at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces lavender flowers in dense clusters with bell-shaped corollas 8 to 12 millimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems 18 to 60 centimeters tall, covered in stiff and glandular hairs, it forms a slender, often branched habit. Its leaves are deeply lobed to compound, 20 to 150 millimeters long, with ovate to oblong blades that have toothed segments. The fruit is small, approximately 3 to 4 millimeters wide, with wavy hairs and containing 2 to 4 pitted seeds.

Habitat: Generally open gravelly or rocky slopes, chaparral, grassland

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: n SCo, n ChI (Santa Cruz Island), WTR.

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Alameda

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