Phacelia mellis Macbr.
 
FamilyHydrophyllaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae
SynonymsPhacelia sericea
DescriptionVelutinous, pubescent plant, with long, twisted, glandular hairs mixed with simple, short, glandular hairs; stem mostly branched; leaves lanceolate, coarsely toothed to lobed or pinnatifid, with entire to shallowly cleft divisions; calyx lobes linear; corolla lobes rounded, about half as long as tube, blue, lavender, or yellow- ish-white; stamens about twice as long as corolla; filaments glabrous; style cleft about a third of its length; capsule acute or acuminate.
EcologyDry slopes, roadsides.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.