Phacelia crenulata
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Phacelia crenulata (Notch-leaved phacelia), is a flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States.
It is an annual plant growing 7-60 cm tall, with crenate to deeply lobed leaves 2-8 cm long, rarely 12 cm. The flowers are violet to blue-purple in color, 4-10 mm long.
It can produce a skin rash similar to that produced by poison ivy.
[edit] References
- Jepson Flora Project: Phacelia crenulata
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 153
