Phacelia campanularia (Desert Canterbury Bells)

3/21/04 Wash off west side of Cottonwood Road, south of visitor center, 
Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, Ca 

3/21/04 Cottonwood Road, Joshua Tree National Park

3/13/05 Cottonwood Road near southern park boundary, Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, CA 

 

3/13/05 Off Cottonwood Road at Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Desert Canterbury Bells

SPECIES: Phacelia campanularia

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/21/2004

LOCATION: Wash off west side of Cottonwood Road, south of visitor center, Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County, Ca 

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 18–55 cm

Stem erect, generally simple, short-hairy, ± glandular

Leaf: petiole 20–40 mm; blade < or > petiole, ovate to ± round, clearly toothed

Flower: pedicel 7–20 mm; calyx lobes 6–8 mm, 9–11 mm in fruit, oblong, hairy, glandular; corolla 15–40 mm, funnel- to bell-shaped, bright blue, deciduous, scales fused to filament base, short, truncate to toothed; stamens 20–45 mm, puberulent; style 20–45 mm, short-hairy

Fruit 8–15 mm, ovoid, beaked, short-glandular-hairy

Seeds 40–80, 1–1.5 mm, pitted

Ecology: Open, sandy or gravelly areas

Elevation: < 1600 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Mojave Desert, n&w Sonoran Desert. Varieties intergrade in s DMtns.