Scientific Name
Phacelia bipinnatifida
Common Name
Purple phacelia; Loose-flowered phacelia
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Biennial
Height:
1 to 2 feet
Flower/fruit:
.5 inch blue to violet lobed, bell-shaped flowers; prominent stamens; more or less one-sided raceme; petals not fringed
Flowering Season:
Spring into early summer
Foliage:
Branching, hairy stem; pinnately divided leaves with 3 to 7 lobed segments; sharply toothed; long-stalked; thick bushy clump
Site:
Moist woods, slopes, stream banks
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