Phacelia lemmonii A. Gray
Family: Hydrophyllaceae
Lemmon's phacelia,  more...
Phacelia lemmonii image
Genevieve K. Walden  

Plant: Annual 7-20 cm; stem generally erect, simple to branched at base, glandular-puberulent

Leaves: alternate, 10-40 mm; blade generally = or > petiole, ovate, toothed to slightly obtusely lobed

INFLORESCENCE: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short

Flowers: pedicel ± 1 mm; calyx lobes 2-4 mm, 5-7 mm in fruit, subequal, oblong to oblanceolate, short-hairy, glandular; corolla 4-6 mm, narrowly bell-shaped, tube yellow, limb white to lavender, deciduous, scales linear or 0; stamens 2-3 mm, glabrous; style 2-3 mm, glandular-puberulent

Fruit: capsule, 3-4 mm, ± oblong, glandular-puberulent; Seeds 30-80, ± 0.5 mm, pitted, oblong to spheric, generally brownish

Misc: Sandy washes, drying streambanks, slopes; 400-2300 m.; Mar-Jul