Phacelia pulchella var. gooddingii

Goodding's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Goodding's phacelia is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native annual found in northern Mojave Desert in clay soil flats at elevations of 800 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces lavender to violet flowers in bell-shaped blooms 6 to 12 millimeters wide with yellow flower tubes. Growing 5 to 25 centimeters tall with ascending to erect branches that are short-stiff-hairy and aromatic, the plant has a delicate, openly branched structure. Its leaves are ovate to nearly round, 5 to 40 millimeters long, with slightly toothed edges and blades longer than their petioles. The fruit is a puberulent oblong capsule 4 to 5 millimeters long, containing 40 to 50 small pitted seeds.

Habitat: Clay soils, flats

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 800-1400 m

Bioregions: n DMoj

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino

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