Phacelia lemmonii

Lemmon's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Lemmon's phacelia is a California native annual found in northeastern Peninsular Ranges, Sierra Nevada East, Mojave Desert, and northern Colorado Desert in sandy washes, drying streambanks, and slopes at elevations of 300 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces white to lavender flowers in narrowly bell-shaped corollas 4 to 6 millimeters long with yellow flower tubes. Growing 7 to 20 centimeters tall with generally erect stems that are simple to branched at the base and minutely glandular-hairy. Its leaves are 10 to 40 millimeters long, ovate, gradually reduced up the stem, with toothed to slightly obtusely lobed blades. The fruit is 3 to 4 millimeters long and contains 30 to 80 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Sandy washes, drying streambanks, slopes

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 300-2300 m

Bioregions: ne PR, SNE, DMoj, n DSon

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Los Angeles, Kern, Alameda

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