Phacelia procera

Tall phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Tall phacelia is a California native perennial herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada, and northern Sierra Nevada high country in meadows, slopes, talus, and conifer forests at elevations of 1,200 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces cream to green or brown-white flowers with a bell-shaped corolla in open, panicle-like clusters. Growing with erect, hairy stems 50 to 200 centimeters tall, it develops a robust and prominent presence in its mountain habitats. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate, 50 to 120 millimeters long, with coarsely toothed or lobed edges and petioles less than 40 millimeters. The fruit is an ovoid, short-rough-hairy structure containing 12 to 16 angled seeds with a distinctive net-like, pitted surface.

Habitat: Meadows, slopes, talus, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1200-2200 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, n SNH

California counties: Butte, Trinity, Placer, Siskiyou, Tehama, Plumas, Modoc, Shasta, Sierra, Mendocino, Humboldt, Lassen, Nevada, Glenn, Lake, Del Norte

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