Phacelia platyloba

Species of plant

Phacelia platyloba

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Boraginales
Family:  | Boraginaceae
Genus:  | Phacelia
Species:  |

P. platyloba

Binomial name
Phacelia platyloba

A.Gray

Phacelia platyloba is a species of phacelia known by the common name broadlobe phacelia. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a section of the central Sierra Nevada foothills. It is a resident of chaparral, woodland, and other local habitat.

It is an annual herb producing a branched or unbranched erect stem up to 45 centimeters tall. It is coated in soft and stiff hairs. The leaves are up to 9 centimeters long and divided into several lobed to intricately toothed leaflets. The inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of widely bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is about half a centimeter long and pale blue or lavender in color. It is surrounded by a calyx of densely hairy sepals which are unequal in size and shape, 2 being longer and wider than the other 3.

## External links[edit]

* Jepson Manual Treatment
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Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q7179924
* Calflora: 6382
* CoL: 4FJYF
* CNPS: 2360
* EoL: 580491
* GBIF: 2928233
* iNaturalist: 78516
* IPNI: 432738-1
* IRMNG: 10894545
* ITIS: 31575
* NatureServe: 2.142944
* Open Tree of Life: 3870306
* Plant List: tro-16200206
* PLANTS: PHPL
* Tropicos: 16200206
* WFO: wfo-0001066751

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