Phacelia nemoralis

Shade phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Shade phacelia is a California native perennial herb found in forest and woodland habitats at elevations up to 1,200 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces bell-shaped flowers with soft white to lavender petals in delicate clusters. Growing with ascending to erect stems 50 to 200 centimeters tall, it develops dense stiff hairs that give the plant a textured appearance. Its leaves vary from compound with 3 to 7 leaflets in lower sections to simple entire leaves in upper sections, with prominent veins and blades 40 to 150 millimeters long. The fruit is small, ovoid, and covered in stiff hairs, producing 1 to 3 pitted seeds.

California counties: Alameda, Solano, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Napa, Lake, San Luis Obispo, Humboldt, Monterey, Del Norte, Mendocino, Placer, Nevada, Contra Costa

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