Phacelia linearis

Linear leaf phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Linear leaf phacelia is a California native annual found in eastern Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau in sandy or gravelly soils within scrub, juniper woodland, and conifer forest at elevations of 800 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to pale blue flowers with violet lobes in a widely bell-shaped corolla 6 to 10 millimeters long. Growing 8 to 60 centimeters tall with erect stems that are simple to branched and covered in fine puberulent or short stiff hairs. Its linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves are 10 to 80 millimeters long, often with 1 to 2 linear basal lobes and tapering to a narrow petiole. The fruit is an ovoid capsule 5 to 8 millimeters long containing 6 to 15 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Sandy or gravelly soils, scrub, juniper woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 800-2000 m

Bioregions: e KR, CaR, n SN, MP

California counties: Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Lassen, Shasta, Trinity, Sierra, Alpine, Lake, El Dorado, Monterey, San Bernardino, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Tulare, Mariposa

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