species 39 observations
Congdon's Phacelia
Phacelia congdonii
Field notes
Phacelia congdonii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Congdon's phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Transverse Ranges. It is a member of the flora in chaparral, woodland, and other local habitat.
It is an annual herb growing mostly upright to a maximum height near 35 centimeters. The branching or unbranched stem is lightly coated in hairs. The oblong leaves are low on the plant and borne on petioles. The hairy inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of many funnel- or bell-shaped flowers. The flower has a lavender or pale purple corolla up to a centimeter wide surrounded by narrow linear hair-lined sepals.
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Specialist bees
Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it



Phacelia Shortface, Chelostoma californicum, Blue-Phacelia Miner, Anthophora phaceliae
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Plant eaters
Animals that feed on it
White-bowed Smoothwing
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Flower visitors
Pollinators and other flower visitors



Yellow-faced Bumble Bee, Van Dyke's Bumble Bee, Crotch's Bumble Bee, Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee
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Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Key traits
- Layer
- Herbaceous plants
- Plant type
- Annual Wildflower
From USDA PLANTS.