Phacelia fremontii

Taxobox
name = "Phacelia fremontii"

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Boraginaceae
genus = "Phacelia"
species = "P. fremontii"
binomial = "Phacelia fremontii"
binomial_authority = Torr.

"Phacelia fremontii" (Fremont phacelia) is a flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States.

It is an annual plant growing 7-30 cm tall, with deeply lobed or compound leaves 1.5-5 cm long. The flowers are blue to lavender with a yellow throat, 7-15 mm long (rarely to 20 mm). The plant grows in gravelly and sandy soils in most of the desert.

References

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Phacelia%20fremontii Jepson Flora Project: "Phacelia fremontii"]
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 154