Phacelia – Scorpion Weed –<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 150-200 usually erect annual, biennials, and perennials in the Boraginaceae family, in this genus. They occur in variable habitats, including stony slopes, scrub,, and woodlands, in Western North America and South America. They range in size from 6″ tall to 5′ feet tall and produces, sometimes downy, pinnate, sometimes simple leaves are broadly ovate to elliptic or linear, and mostly alternate, the lower ones sometimes opposite. They bear terminal cymes, racemes, or panicles of 5 petaled, tubular, bell shaped, or bowl shaped, blue, violet, white, or yellow flowers, each with 5 narrow, spreading lobes, and with prominent styles and stamens. The annual species are suitable for a border or wildlife garden, their nectar rich flowers attract bees and other insects. They resent winter moisture. Contact with foliage may aggravate skin allergies similar to Poison Ivy and Oak.<\/p>\n

Grow annual in any light, fertile, well drained soil in full sun. Protect from winter moisture.<\/p>\n

Prone to downy mildew, powdery mildews, rust, <\/em>and leaf spots.<\/em><\/p>\n

P.campanularia – California bluebell – California Dessert Bluebell<\/strong> – This fast growing, erect, compact, intricately branched, glandular hairy, aromatic annual from Southern California grows 6-18″ tall and 6″ wide. It produces simple, ovate to elliptic, coarsely toothed, dark green leaves, to 2″ long. In late spring and summer it bears lax cymes of upturned, spreading, bell shaped, dark blue, occasionally white flowers, to 1″ across.<\/p>\n

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