Phacelia minor (California Bluebells, Wild Canterbury Bells)

 3/10/17 Hills above Minthorn Street, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

3/10/17 Hills above Minthorn Street, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

3/10/17 Hills above Minthorn Street, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve, Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA 

 3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve, Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA

3/6/05 Wilson Valley Road near intersection with Hwy. 371, 

Aguanga, Riverside County, CA   

5/6/01 Gabrielino Trail (Chantry Flat to Sturtevant Falls), San Gabriel Mountains, 
Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, CA 

4/12/03 Eaton Canyon Trail, Eaton Canyon Natural Area, 
San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA 

5/19/01 Gabrielino Trail (JPL to Oakwilde), Lower Arroyo Seco, 
San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA 

3/31/01 On our property in La Cresta before we built our home,
Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA 

6/1/03 San Juan Loop Trail, San Mateo Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains, 

Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: California Bells, Wild Canterbury Bells

SPECIES: Phacelia minor

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/31/2001

LOCATION: On our property (near chaparral at the middle building pad) in La Cresta before we built our home. Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA 

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 20–60 cm

Stem generally erect, 0–few-branched, short-glandular-hairy, sparsely stiff-hairy

Leaf 20–110 mm; blade < to = petiole, ovate to ± round, irregularly toothed

Flower: pedicel 10–15(20) mm; calyx lobes 5–6 mm, 6–8 mm in fruit, narrowly oblong, short-hairy, glandular; corolla 10–40 mm, bell-shaped, purple, deciduous, scales fused to filament base, elongate; stamens 15–35 mm, short-glandular-hairy; style 15–40 mm, short-hairy

Fruit 7–13 mm, ovoid, beaked, puberulent; tip short-stiff-hairy

Seeds 30–80, ± 1 mm, pitted

Ecology: Open areas, burns, slopes

Elevation: < 1600 m.  

Bioregional distribution: South Coast, e Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, w Sonoran Desert 

Distribution outside California: Baja California

Flowering time: Apr–Jun
Horticultural information: TRY.