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Phacelia minor

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Scientific name
  
Phacelia minor

Order
  
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Genus
  
Phacelia

Rank
  
Species

Phacelia minor CalPhotos Phacelia minor Wild Canterbury Bells

Similar
  
Phacelia parryi, Phacelia cicutaria, Phacelia distans, Phacelia campanularia, Phacelia brachyloba

Phacelia minor, with the common names Whitlavia and wild Canterbury bells, is a species of phacelia. It is native to Southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the Colorado Desert and the coastal and inland mountains of the Transverse-Peninsular Ranges, often in chaparral and areas recently burned.

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Description

Phacelia minor Phacelia minor

Phacelia minor is an annual herb producing a mostly unbranched erect stem 20 to 60 centimeters tall. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The leaves are up to 11 centimeters long with toothed, crinkly, oval or rounded blades borne on long petioles. The showy inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of many bell-shaped flowers, each up to 4 centimeters in length. The large flowers are lavender to deep blue-purple in color with protruding stamens tipped with white anthers.

Phacelia minor Phacelia minor wild scorpionweed Go Botany

Phacelia minor Phacelia minor wild scorpionweed Go Botany

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References

Phacelia minor Wikipedia


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