Phacelia keckii

Santiago peak phacelia, Santiago Peak Phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.3

Santiago peak phacelia is a rare (CNPS 1B.3) California native annual found in the Santa Ana Mountains in open chaparral at elevations of 500 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces lavender to purple flowers with yellow corolla tubes and delicate purple lobes in narrowly funnel-shaped blossoms 9 to 14 millimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall, it has a delicate branching habit with short, glandular hairs. Its leaves are widely elliptic to ovate, 10 to 75 millimeters long, with toothed or slightly lobed edges that contribute to its distinctive aromatic character. The fruit is a small, short-hairy structure 3 to 5 millimeters long containing 8 to 10 pitted seeds.

Habitat: Open chaparral

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 500-1600 m

Bioregions: PR (Santa Ana Mtns).

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