Phacelia mohavensis

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Phacelia mohavensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Phacelia
Species:
P. mohavensis
Binomial name
Phacelia mohavensis

Phacelia mohavensis is a species of phacelia known by the common name Mojave phacelia. [1] It is endemic to southern California, where it is mostly limited to the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains. [2] [3] It grows in the forests and wooded slopes of the mountains in sandy and gravelly substrates. [2]

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Description

Phacelia mohavensis is an annual herb producing a mostly unbranched erect stem up to 25 centimeters tall. It is glandular and coated lightly in stiff hairs. The leaves are linear or lance-shaped, smooth-edged, and up to 4.5 centimeters in length. [4]

The hairy, glandular inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is just under a centimeter long and white to pale blue in color with a yellowish tubular throat. [2] It has a calyx of long, narrow, fuzzy-haired sepals.

References

  1. ↑ "Phacelia mohavensis A. Gray". USDA Plants Database. Retrieved 2025-11-25.
  2. 1 2 3 Lee, Gregory J. (1988). "A Systematic Re-Evaluation of Phacelia mohavensis var. exilis (Hydrophyllaceae)" . Systematic Botany. 13 (1): 18. doi:10.2307/2419237 . Retrieved 2025-11-25– via JSTOR.
  3. ↑ "Phacelia mohavensis A.Gray". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-11-25.
  4. ↑ Gray, Asa (1878). Synoptical flora of North America. New York: American Book Company. pp. 164–165. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10847.


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