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Phacelia humilis

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Boraginaceae

Scientific name
  
Phacelia humilis

Order
  
(unplaced)

Genus
  
Phacelia

Rank
  
Species

Phacelia humilis

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Phacelia humilis, with the common name low phacelia, is a species of phacelia. It is native to the Western United States, from central Washington to central California, where it grows in mountain and foothill habitat.

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Varieties

  • Phacelia humilis var. humilis - most instances of this plant are this variety
  • Phacelia humilis var. dudleyi - is known only from the southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains of California.

    • Description

    It is an annual herb with an erect stem growing up to 20 centimeters tall. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The oval leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped purple flowers. Each flower is roughly half a centimeter long and surrounded by a calyx of sepals which are coated densely in long, straight, white hairs.

    References

    Phacelia humilis Wikipedia
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