Phacelia rattanii

Rattan's phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Rattan's phacelia is a California native annual herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, southern Cascade Range, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges in shaded crevices and on steep slopes at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to blue flowers in small, narrowly bell-shaped corollas about 3 to 5 millimeters long. Growing 15 to 100 centimeters tall with generally erect stems that are simple to branched at the base and sparsely covered with white to clear stiff hairs. Its leaves are 10 to 75 millimeters long, typically ovate with irregular teeth or lobes, with leaf blades longer than their petioles. The fruit is a small, spherical structure 2 to 3 millimeters wide, typically containing two pitted seeds.

Habitat: Shaded crevices, steep slopes

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, s CaR, SnFrB, SCoRO, n SCoRI

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