Phacelia minor

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|image = Phaceliaminor.jpg

|genus = Phacelia

|species = minor

|authority = (Harv.) Thell.

|synonyms_ref={{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:191965-2 |title=Phacelia minor (Harv.) Thell. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=14 October 2020 }}

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  • Phacelia minor var. whitlavia J.F.Macbr.
  • Phacelia whitlavia A.Gray
  • Phacelia whitlavia var. euwhitlavia Brand
  • Phacelia whitlavia f. genuina Brand
  • Phacelia whitlavia f. gracillima Brand
  • Phacelia whitlavia f. heterostyla Brand
  • Phacelia whitlavia var. jonesii Brand
  • Phacelia whitlavia f. minor (Harv.) Brand
  • Whitlavia gloxinioides J.Hill Dicks.
  • Whitlavia grandiflora Harv.
  • Whitlavia minor Harv.

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Phacelia minor, with the common names Whitlavia{{Cite web|title=Wildflower Search|url=https://wildflowersearch.org/search?oldstate=gloc:z;bloom:Ignore;name:Phacelia+minor|access-date=2022-01-01|website=wildflowersearch.org}} and wild Canterbury bells,{{Cite web|title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHMI|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.wildflower.org}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae.{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4FJX2 |title= Phacelia minor (Harv.) Thell. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=November 24, 2024}}{{cite web |url= https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001066889 |title= Phacelia minor (Harv.) Thell. |author= |date=n.d. |website=World Flora Online |access-date=November 24, 2024}} It is native to Southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the Colorado Desert and the coastal and inland mountains of the Transverse-Peninsular Ranges, often in chaparral and areas recently burned.

Description

Phacelia minor is an annual herb producing a mostly unbranched erect stem 20 to 60 centimeters tall. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The leaves are up to 11 centimeters long with toothed, crinkly, oval or rounded blades borne on long petioles. The showy inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of many bell-shaped flowers, each up to 4 centimeters in length. The large flowers are lavender to deep blue-purple in color with protruding stamens tipped with white anthers.{{Cite web|title=California Bluebell, Phacelia minor|url=https://calscape.org/Phacelia-minor-()|access-date=2021-12-30|website=calscape.org}}

There are reports that glandular hairs of stems, flowers and leaves of P. minor secrete oil droplets that can cause an unpleasant skin rash (contact dermatitis) in some people.{{cite journal|last1=Reynolds|first1=Gary|last2=Epstein|first2=William|last3=Terry|first3=Diane |last4=Rodriguez|first4=Eloy|title=A potent contact allergen of Phacelia (Hydrophyllaceae)|journal=Contact Dermatitis|date=1980 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=272–274 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0536.1980.tb04929.x|pmid=7398286|s2cid=42561206}}

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