Phacelia insularis

Coast phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Coast phacelia is a California native annual found in coastal regions in open, sandy or rocky habitats. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces lavender to violet flowers in delicate clusters with short stems. Growing 5 to 30 centimeters tall with few-branched stems covered in short, stiff hairs, it has a distinctive appearance in coastal landscapes. Its leaves vary from entire to deeply lobed, with proximal leaves having unequal lobes and typically measuring 10 to 80 millimeters long. The fruit is an obovoid structure 6 to 9 millimeters long, containing 8 to 15 pitted seeds.

California counties: Santa Barbara

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