Phacelia parryi (Parry's Phacelia)

 4/3/05 Grotto Trail, Circle X Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, Ventura County, CA

4/3/05 Grotto Trail.

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Parry's Phacelia

SPECIES: Phacelia parryi

FAMILY: Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/3/2005

LOCATION: Grotto Trail, Circle X Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, Ventura County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 10–70 cm

Stem erect, 0–few-branched, glandular-puberulent, stiff-hairy

Leaf 10–120 mm; blade < or = petiole, oblong to ovate, irregularly toothed

Flower: pedicel 10–20 mm; calyx lobes 4–6 mm, 6–8 mm in fruit, ± linear, sparsely hairy, ± glandular; corolla 10–20 mm, rotate to widely bell-shaped, tube and lower throat white to light violet, limb violet to purple, deciduous, scales fused to filament base, square; stamens 10–20 mm, long-hairy; style 10–20 mm, short-hairy

Fruit 6–10 mm, ovoid, beaked, short-stiff-hairy, gland-dotted

Seeds 40–60, ± 1 mm, pitted

Ecology: Open areas, burns, slopes, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral

Elevation: < 2400 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Inner South Coast Ranges, Southwestern California (except Channel Islands, w Western Transverse Ranges), w edge Desert 

Distribution outside California: Baja California

Flowering time: Mar–Jun

Horticultural information: TRY.