Phacelia longipes (White-flowered Phacelia, Longstalk Phacelia)

5/18/01 Eaton wash, Eaton Canyon Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

5/18/01 

5/18/01

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: White-flowered Phacelia

SPECIES: Phacelia longipes

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/18/2001

LOCATION: Abundant streamside at Eaton wash, Eaton Canyon Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 10–40 cm

Stem decumbent to erect, simple to branched at base, sparsely stiff-hairy, short-glandular-hairy

Leaves ± basal, 20–140 mm; blade generally < petiole, ovate to round, ± crenate to irregularly toothed

Flower: pedicel 3–10(30) mm; calyx lobes 3–4 mm, 4–6 mm in fruit, ± linear, short-hairy, glandular; corolla 7–12 mm, widely bell-shaped, white to blue, deciduous, scales fused to filament base; stamens 10–15 mm, puberulent; style 10–15 mm, puberulent

Fruit 5–8 mm, ovoid, short-glandular-hairy; tip stiff-hairy

Seeds 10–20, 1–1.5 mm, pitted

Ecology: Gravelly or rocky soils, chaparral, juniper woodland, coniferous forest

Elevation: 400–1900 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, sw Mojave Desert 

Flowering time: Apr–Jun