Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Phacelia longipes is a species of phacelia known by the common name longstalk phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the Transverse Ranges and adjacent western Mojave Desert. Its habitat includes chaparral, woodland, and forest, in rocky soils. It is an annual herb growing decumbent or erect to a maximum length of about 40 centimeters. It is hairy and coated lightly in soft and stiff hairs. Most of the leaves are low on the plant, the toothed oval blades borne on long petioles. The hairy, hairy flower cluster is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is roughly a centimeter long and white to light blue in color. It has a calyx of linear sepals and five long, protruding stamens.

Plant type

Annual herb

Size

4 - 16 in Tall

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Color

Pink

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Fast

Site type

Gravelly or rocky places

Plant communities

Chaparral, Yellow Pine Forest

Bees
Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 8 likely

Confirmed Likely

Geranium Plume Moth

Amblyptilia pica

Annaphila ida

Oso Flaco Flightless Moth

Areniscythris brachypteris

Orange Tortrix Moth

Argyrotaenia franciscana