Phacelia longipes

Long stalk phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Long stalk phacelia is a California native annual herb found in the southern Coast Ranges, western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, and southwestern Mojave Desert in gravelly mountain washes, slopes, chaparral, and woodland habitats at elevations of 400 to 2,450 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces white to pale magenta or pale blue flowers 7 to 12 millimeters long in open cymes with distinctive purple stamens. Growing 10 to 50 centimeters tall with decumbent to erect stems that are red-purple and sparsely hairy, it has a delicate branching structure. Its basal leaves are predominantly ovate to round, 20 to 140 millimeters long, with irregular crenate or toothed edges. The fruit is a small ovoid structure 5 to 8 millimeters long, covered in short glandular hairs.

Habitat: Gravelly or rocky soils, mountain washes, slopes, chaparral, juniper woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 400-2450 m

Bioregions: SCoRO, WTR, SnGb, sw DMoj.

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Alameda, San Diego, Mono

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