Phacelia viscida

Sticky phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae · Type: annual · Native

Sticky phacelia is a California native annual found in open grasslands and disturbed areas at moderate elevations. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces blue to white flowers in delicate, loosely branched clusters with blossoms 5 to 10 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 10 to 100 centimeters tall, covered in short stiff hairs and glandular surfaces, it has a distinctive branching habit. Its leaves range from 10 to 100 millimeters long, with elliptic to broadly ovate blades that are irregularly toothed and sometimes deeply lobed. The fruit is an ovoid capsule 5 to 12 millimeters long, containing 40 to 200 tiny, shallowly pitted seeds.

California counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Riverside, San Diego, Orange, Alameda

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