Phacelia curvipes

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Phacelia curvipes
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Secure  (NatureServe)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Hydrophyllaceae
Genus: Phacelia
Species:
P. curvipes
Binomial name
Phacelia curvipes

Phacelia curvipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae, known by the common names Washoe phacelia [1] and Washoe scorpionweed. [2] It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows in many types of habitat, such as chaparral, oak and pine woodland, and forests. [3]

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Description

Phacelia curvipes is an annual herb producing a small, branching stem up to about 15 centimeters long. It is glandular and hairy in texture. The leaves are oval or lance-shaped, 1 to 4 centimeters long, and borne on petioles. The hairy inflorescence is a cyme of several flowers. The flower has a bell-shaped or rounded, flattened corolla under a centimeter long. It is blue or purple with a white throat. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Phacelia curvipes Calflora.
  2. ↑ Phacelia curvipes. NatureServe. 2012.
  3. 1 2 Phacelia curvipes. The Jepson Manual.
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