Phacelia perityloides

Panamint phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Panamint phacelia is a California native perennial herb found in the desert mountain ranges at elevations between 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to May, this aromatic plant produces white to pale lavender flowers in delicate clusters with yellow flower tube centers. Growing with pendant to spreading stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall and covered in glandular hairs, it has a distinctive branching habit. Its leaves are approximately round, 5 to 25 millimeters long with irregular teeth or shallow lobes, carried on slender petioles 3 to 50 millimeters in length. The plant produces small, narrowly ovoid fruits 2 to 4 millimeters long, containing 50 to 200 tiny angular seeds.

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino, Mono, 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.