Phacelia quickii

Quick's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Quick's phacelia is a California native annual found in the northern and central Sierra Nevada Mountains in open granitic areas at elevations of 1,000 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from May to July, this delicate plant produces white to blue or lavender flowers 3 to 5 millimeters wide with widely bell-shaped corollas. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 4 to 18 centimeters tall, it has a simple or branched structure that is softly puberulent. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, 8 to 50 millimeters long, tapering gently to the petiole and remaining entire along the edges. The fruit is a small spherical structure 2 to 2.5 millimeters long, containing 2 to 4 pitted seeds.

Habitat: Open granitic areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1000-2400 m

Bioregions: n&ampc SN.

California counties: El Dorado, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Fresno, Madera, Calaveras, Alameda, Tulare, Alpine, Amador, Marin, Placer

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