Phacelia fremontii
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Phacelia fremontii (Fremont phacelia) is a flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States.
It is an annual plant growing 7-30 cm tall, with deeply lobed or compound leaves 1.5-5 cm long. The flowers are blue to lavender with a yellow throat, 7-15 mm long (rarely to 20 mm). The plant grows in gravelly and sandy soils in most of the desert.
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- Jepson Flora Project: Phacelia fremontii
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 154
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