Phacelia lyonii

Lyon's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Lyon's phacelia is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native annual found in southern Channel Islands (excluding Santa Barbara Island) on rocky slopes and canyons at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from April to October, this plant produces blue to white bell-shaped flowers 5 to 7 millimeters long with distinctive purple stamens. Growing 30 to 120 centimeters tall with erect stems that are short-stiff-hairy and occasionally branched, it has an aromatic quality. Its leaves are densely glandular, generally over 40 millimeters long, with ovate blades deeply lobed or compound and segments that are crenate to finely divided. The fruit is 5 to 7 millimeters long and slightly oblong, containing 7 to 40 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, canyons

Bloom period: Apr-Oct

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: s ChI (exc Santa Barbara Island).

California counties: Los Angeles, San Diego

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