Phacelia fremontii (Fremont's Phacelia)

3/25/05 Wash roadside off Hwy. 178 just east of Salsberry Pass, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA 

3/26/05 Roadside off Hwy. 247 (Barstow to Lucerne Valley) just south of gas pipeline road, San Bernardino County, CA 

 3/26/05 Roadside off Hwy. 247 (Barstow to Lucerne Valley) just south of gas pipeline road, San Bernardino County, CA 

3/22/03 Desert View Nature Trail, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

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

4/27/01 Dirt track off Kelbaker Road to Cinder Cones, Mojave National Preserve, San Bernardino County, CA

 5/24/03 Mid Hills, Mojave National Preserve, San Bernardino County, CA

3/24/01 Desert View Nature Trail, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Fremont's Phacelia

SPECIES: Phacelia fremontii

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/24/2001

LOCATION: Desert View Nature Trail, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 7–30 cm

Stem decumbent to erect, branched at base, puberulent, generally glandular above

Leaves 15–50 mm, ± basal; blade > petiole, oblong to oblanceolate, deeply lobed to compound, segments generally rounded

Flower: pedicel 1–3 mm; calyx lobes 3–5 mm, 4–6 mm in fruit, subequal, linear to oblanceolate, short-hairy; corolla 7–15(20) mm, funnel- to bell-shaped, tube and lower throat yellow, upper limb blue to violet, deciduous, scales linear; stamens 3–8 mm, glabrous; style 3–5 mm, short-hairy

Fruit 4–6 mm, ovoid, puberulent below, short-stiff-hairy above

Seeds 10–18, 1–1.5 mm; cross-furrows 6–9

Ecology: Sandy or gravelly soils, scrub, grassland

Elevation: < 2300 m.  

Bioregional distribution: s Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, e San Francisco Bay Area, Inner South Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert 

Distribution outside California: to sw Utah, Arizona

Flowering time: Mar–Jun
Horticultural information: TRY.