Phacelia affinis is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common names limestone phacelia and purple-bell scorpionweed. It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California and Sonora in Mexico. It can be found in scrub, woodland, forest, and other habitat.

It is an annual herb growing erect to a maximum height near 30 centimeters, its stem branching or not. The leaves are oblong in shape and are generally either deeply lobed or divided into several lobed leaflets. In texture the plant is slightly hairy and glandular. The inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of many bell-shaped flowers each just a few millimeters long. The flower is pale lavender or white with a yellowish tubular throat. The fruit is a capsule about half a centimeter long containing up to 30 seeds.

Phacelia affinis

References

External links

Phacelia affinis — U.C. CalPhotos gallery

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Flora of California

Flora of Baja California

Flora of Arizona

Flora of Nevada

Flora of New Mexico

Flora of Sonora

Flora of the California desert regions

Flora of the Great Basin

Flora of the Sonoran Deserts

Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands

Natural history of the California Coast Ranges

Natural history of the Colorado Desert

Natural history of the Mojave Desert

Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges

Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains

Natural history of the Transverse Ranges

Phacelia affinis