Phacelia leonis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Genus: | Phacelia |
Species: | P. leonis |
Binomial name | |
Phacelia leonis | |
Phacelia leonis is a rare species of phacelia known by the common name Siskiyou phacelia. It is endemic to the Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and far northern California, where it grows in serpentine soils in the coniferous forests.
Phacelia leonis is an annual herb producing a usually unbranched erect stem up to 15 centimeters tall. It is glandular and lightly hairy in texture. The narrow, tapering leaves are 1 to 3 centimeters long. The hairy inflorescence is a one-sided cyme of bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is only 2 or 3 millimeters long and light blue or lavender in color.
Phacelia anelsonii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Aven Nelson's phacelia. It is native to the Southwestern United States, where it is known from scattered occurrences in southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, and eastern California. It can be found in scrub and woodland habitat. It is named after the botanist Aven Nelson.
Phacelia argentea is a rare species of phacelia known by the common names sand dune phacelia and silvery phacelia. It is native to the coastline of southwestern Oregon and far northwestern California, where it was counted at a total of 33 sites in 1995. It is the only phacelia species endemic to coastal sand dune habitat, an ecosystem which is altered and declining in the area.
Phacelia austromontana is a species of phacelia known by the common name Southern Sierra phacelia. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it can be found in the Transverse Ranges and Sierra Nevada of California east to Utah. It grows in open mountainous habitat.
Phacelia californica is a species of phacelia known by the common names California phacelia and California scorpionweed. It is native to coastal northern California and Oregon, where it grows in chaparral, woodland, and coastal bluffs and grassland.
Phacelia cookei is a rare species of phacelia known by the common name Cooke's phacelia. It is endemic to Siskiyou County, California, where it is known from just a few occurrences in the forest and scrub around Mount Shasta. The substrate in the area is sandy, ashy volcanic soil.
Phacelia curvipes is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common names Washoe phacelia and Washoe scorpionweed. 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.
Phacelia distans is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common names distant phacelia and distant scorpionweed. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, including forest, woodland, chaparral, grassland, and meadows.
Phacelia eisenii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Eisen's phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it occurs only in the Sierra Nevada and its foothills, as well as the adjacent Tehachapi Mountains. It grows in mountain habitat such as coniferous forests.
Phacelia exilis is a species of phacelia known by the common names Transverse Range phacelia and lavender windows. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the southern Sierra Nevada and the Transverse Ranges. It grows in mountain and foothill habitat such as slopes and meadows.
Phacelia floribunda is a species of phacelia known by the common names many-flowered phacelia, southern island phacelia and San Clemente Island phacelia. It is known only from San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California, and Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California. It grows in coastal sage scrub habitat in the canyons of these two islands.
Phacelia hydrophylloides is a species of phacelia known by the common name waterleaf phacelia. It is native to California, Oregon, and Nevada, where it can be found in the southern Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada. It grows in mountain habitat such as meadows and forest.
Phacelia lemmonii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Lemmon's phacelia. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows in mountain and sandy desert habitat.
Phacelia longipes is a species of phacelia known by the common name longstalk phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the Transverse Ranges and adjacent western Mojave Desert. Its habitat includes chaparral, woodland, and forest, in rocky soils.
Phacelia marcescens is a species of phacelia known by the common name persistentflower phacelia. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada and its foothills in California, where it grows in meadows, forests, and other mountain habitat.
Phacelia mutabilis is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name changeable phacelia. It is native to the western United States and Baja California, where it can be found in mountains and foothills, in forested and open habitat types, and deserts.
Phacelia nashiana is a species of phacelia known by the common name Charlotte's phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the ecotone where the lower Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains transition into the Mojave Desert. It grows in scrub and woodland and on granite mountain slopes.
Phacelia orogenes is an uncommon species of phacelia known by the common name mountain phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the southern High Sierra, particularly around Mineral King in Sequoia National Forest.
Phacelia parryi is a species of phacelia known by the common name Parry's phacelia.
Phacelia pedicellata is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae. Its common names include specter phacelia and pedicellate phacelia. It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it can be found in several types of habitat, including creosote bush scrub and Joshua tree woodland.
Phacelia phacelioides, the Mt. Diablo phacelia, is a species of phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from about 20 occurrences in the coastal mountain ranges of the inner San Francisco Bay Area, including Mount Diablo. It is a resident of chaparral and woodland habitat.