Phacelia rotundifolia

Round leafed phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Round leafed phacelia is a California native annual found in the White and Inyo Mountains and desert regions on rocky slopes, crevices, and pinyon/juniper woodland at elevations below 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white to violet flowers in small, narrowly bell-shaped clusters around 3 to 6 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 4 to 28 centimeters tall, it has few to many branches covered in short, stiff hairs and often glandular. Its round leaves are 10 to 40 millimeters long, distinctively dentate or weakly lobed with obtuse edges, typically shorter than their own petioles. The plant produces small oblong fruits 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters long, containing 50 to 100 tiny pitted seeds.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, crevices, ledges, creosote-bush scrub, pinyon/juniper woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 2500 m

Bioregions: W&ampI, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, Kern, Mono, San Diego

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