Phacelia pringlei

Pringle's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Pringle's phacelia is a California native annual herb found in the Klamath Ranges and high Cascade Range on open, steep slopes and in conifer forests at elevations of 900 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces delicate lavender flowers approximately 3 to 5 millimeters wide with a rotate shape. Growing 2 to 18 centimeters tall with erect stems that are occasionally few-branched and glabrous or minutely glandular near the base, it has a slender, compact form. Its leaves are linear to narrowly lanceolate, 7 to 30 millimeters long, with proximal leaves generally growing opposite and tapering smoothly to the petiole. The fruit is nearly spherical, 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long, and contains 3 to 8 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Open, steep slopes, ridges, conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 900-2700 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH.

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity

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