Phacelia crenulata
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| Phacelia crenulata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | (unplaced) |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Phacelia |
| Species: | P. crenulata |
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| Phacelia crenulata Torr. ex S.Watson |
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Phacelia crenulata is a species of phacelia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include notch-leaved phacelia and cleftleaf wild heliotrope.
It is an annual plant growing 7-60 cm tall, with crenate to deeply lobed leaves up to 8 to 12 centimeters in length. The flowers are violet to blue-purple in color and up to one centimeter long.
It can produce a skin rash similar to that produced by poison ivy.
[edit] References
- Jepson Flora Project: Phacelia crenulata
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 153
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