Phacelia fimbriata Michaux. Common name: Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia. Phenology: Apr-May. Habitat: Moist forests on slopes and floodplains, at low to high elevations, perhaps mainly over circumneutral soils, often locally abundant. Distribution: Sw. VA south to w. NC, and e. TN, a Southern Appalachian endemic. Reports from n. GA (Jones & Coile 1988) are erroneous, based on misidentified P. purshii.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, G, K4, RAB, S, Tn, Va, W, Constance (1949). Basionym: Phacelia fimbriata Michx. 1803
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Heliophily ⓘ: 3
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Spreading-ascending annual found in moist forests on slopes and floodplains, at low to high elevations, perhaps mainly over circumneutral soils; often locally abundant.
Stems: Stems weak, branched from the base and covered with stiff, spreading hairs.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate (uppermost sessile), pinnately divided into 5-9 lobes that are blunt or pointed and sparsely rough-hairy.
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Flowers: Flowers in branched clusters of 5-15 at tips of branches, white, nearly 1/2 in. wide, the corolla bowl-shaped and opening to 5 spreading, rounded lobes with prominently fringed margins. 5 stamens are attached to the petals.
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Height: 4-12 in.
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description: Spreading-ascending annual found in moist forests on slopes and floodplains, at low to high elevations, perhaps mainly over circumneutral soils; often locally abundant.
stems: Stems weak, branched from the base and covered with stiff, spreading hairs.
leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate (uppermost sessile), pinnately divided into 5-9 lobes that are blunt or pointed and sparsely rough-hairy.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in branched clusters of 5-15 at tips of branches, white, nearly 1/2 in. wide, the corolla bowl-shaped and opening to 5 spreading, rounded lobes with prominently fringed margins. 5 stamens are attached to the petals.
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