Phacelia imbricata

Imbricate phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Imbricate phacelia is a California native perennial herb found in rocky or open habitats, likely in coastal and mountain regions, at moderate elevations. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces delicate white to lavender flowers with bell-shaped corollas approximately 4 to 7 millimeters long. Growing 20 to 120 centimeters tall with stiff, often glandular-hairy stems, it develops a distinctive growth habit with primarily basal leaves. Its leaf blades are narrowly lanceolate to ovate, typically 50 to 150 millimeters long, deeply dissected with prominent veins and occasionally featuring entire distal leaves. The fruit is a small, narrowly ovoid structure 3 to 4 millimeters long, covered in stiff hairs and typically containing one to three seeds.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Lake, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside, Orange, Monterey, San Benito, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Calaveras, Sacramento, Solano, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Napa, Lassen, Madera, Butte, Mendocino, Alameda, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Santa Clara, Tulare, Placer, El Dorado, Stanislaus, Amador, Nevada, Tehama, Sutter, San Joaquin, Trinity, Merced, Yolo, Siskiyou, San Mateo, Marin, San Francisco, Santa Cruz

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