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 Flowers Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual Similar Species: Phacelia crenulata
General Desc:
Stems slender, erect, simple or freely branching throughout, and brittle, which break easily when picked up, covered with stiff gland-tipped hairs; basal leaves larger and strongly lobed; stamens within corolla or only slightly extended beyond.
Identification notes: Annual; glandular, stiff hairs; leaves alternate, smooth margined to twice pinnate, basal leaves larger;Â flowers light blue, in coiled elongated clusters, stamens included within or only slightly extend beyond the petals; seeds have prominent ridge.
Height:
2 to 24 inches
Habitat Description: Found in sandy or gravelly soils, on rocky slopes among creosote and other warm desert shrub communities.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub,
Elevation: 2000 - 5000 feet
Color:
Light blue, aging to white
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Flowers in scorpioid (curling) seedhead at tips of branches; light blue, or aging to white, with yellow tube; sepals 5, spatula-like, glandular-hairy; corollas bell-shaped, 5-lobed; stamens included within corolla or slightly extended <1/16 inch beyond.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Alternate along the stems, sometimes in basal cluster; basal and stem leaves on slender stalks; blades oblong, 3/4 to 3 inches long; margins wavy to pinnatifid with broadly rounded lobes; leaf surfaces glandular with stiff hairs.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Round capsules about 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, sparsely hairy.
Seed Notes: Capsule with 1 to 4 boat-shaped seeds which are rough to the touch; lower surface pitted; upper surface with central ridge separating 2 longitudinal grooves, ridge corrugated along 1 side.
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