Phacelia linearis
Threadleaf Phacelia

Family: Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Fish Hatchery; dry, open, sandy soil

Flowers:

corolla widely bell shaped, 6-10 mm; limb violet and deciduous, tube white to pale blue; 10 to 20 ovules; stamens short-hairy, 5 to 6 mm; style 5 to 8 mm, short hairy, entire well beyond the middle

Fruit:

6 to 15 in number; 1 to 2 mm long; pitted

Leaves:

1 to 11 cm long; linear to narrowly lanceolate, tapered to a petiole, entire to 1 to 2 lobed near the base, lobes linear

Plant:

annual; 10 to 50 cm tall; stem decumbent to erect, simple to branched at base; sparsely stiff hairy, short-glandular hairy

Habitat:

sandy or gravelly soils, common in dry open places at lower elevations

Distribution of species:

Western Canada to Wyoming, south to California, generally east Cascades

Distribution of genus:

more or less 175 species: the Americas