Phacelia curvipes (Dwarf Phacelia)

5/10/03 Pinyon Pathway Trail, Devil's Punchbowl Natural Area, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

5/10/03 

5/10/03

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Dwarf Phacelia

SPECIES: Phacelia curvipes

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/10/2003

LOCATION: Pinyon Pathway Nature Trail, Devil's Punchbowl Natural Area, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 4–15 cm

Stem spreading to ascending, many-branched, short-hairy, glandular above

Leaves 10–40 mm; lower ± = upper; blade generally > petiole, elliptic to oblanceolate, entire

Flower: pedicels 1–6 mm, lower < 25 mm in fruit; calyx lobes 3–6 mm, 7–10 mm in fruit, unequal, narrowly oblong, puberulent, stiffly ciliate; corolla 4–8 mm, rotate to bell-shaped, tube and throat white, lobes blue to violet, deciduous, scales linear; stamens 2–6 mm, short-hairy; style 2–4 mm, short-hairy

Fruit 4–5 mm, ovoid, puberulent and appressed-short-hairy

Seeds 6–16, 1–1.5 mm, pitted

Ecology: Sandy to rocky slopes, chaparral, oak/pine woodland, coniferous forest

Elevation: 500–2700 m.  

Bioregional distribution: s Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Transverse Ranges, East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert 

Distribution outside California: to sw Utah, nw Arizona

Flowering time: Apr–Jun