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Phacelia (phacelia, scorpionweed, heliotrope) is a genus of about 200 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the borage family, native to North and South America. California is particularly rich in species with over 90 recorded in the region.
Phacelia grisea is an annual herb with a branching, erect stem reaching up to about 60 centimeters in height. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The lance-shaped or oval leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and have lobed edges.
Phacelia inyoensis is an annual herb growing up to about 10 centimeters high with a basal array of lobed rounded or oval leaves on short petioles. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The inflorescence is a cyme of bell-shaped flowers each only 2 or 3 millimeters long. Unlike many phacelias which have blooms in shades of purple and blue ...
Phacelia procera is a species of phacelia known by the common name tall phacelia. It is native to the northwestern United States as far south as the Sierra Nevada, where it grows in mountainous habitat, such as forests, meadows, and talus. It is a perennial herb producing an erect stem from a taproot, reaching a maximum height around two meters ...
Phacelia mammillarensis is an annual herb with simple oblong to lanceolate leaves up to 7 mm (0.3 inches) long, covered with small glandular hairs. Inflorescences are terminal and lateral, each in the shape of a "scorpoid cyme", i.e. curled in a spiral like a scorpion's tail or like a half-open fiddlehead fern. Flowers are yellow to white. [2]
Phacelia thermalis is a species of phacelia known by the common names heated phacelia and hot spring phacelia. It is native to the western United States from northeastern California to Idaho, with a disjunct population in Montana. [1] It grows in plateau and mountain habitat in open areas with clay soils. It is an annual herb with spreading or ...
Berberine, a plant compound traditionally used in herbal medicine, is today commonly stocked on the shelves of health food stores and pharmacies as a supplement.. Berberine supplements gained ...
Phacelia humilis, with the common name low phacelia, is a species of phacelia. It is native to the Western United States , from central Washington to central California , where it grows in mountain and foothill habitat.