Calflora: Phacelia ramosissima

Phacelia ramosissima Lehm.

branching phacelia

Phacelia ramosissima, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Coastal Strand, Chaparral, Yellow Pine Forest, Sagebrush Scrub, Red Fir Forest
Habitat:	coastal [Walker]
Wetlands:	Usually occurs in non wetlands, but occasionally found in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Toxicity:	DERMATITIS [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 10171 feet
Family:	BORAGINACEAE (CNPS + PLANTS: HYDROPHYLLACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Phacelia found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Phacelia ramosissima var. austrolitoralis

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. austrolitoralis
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. eremophila
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. latifolia
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. montereyensis
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. subglabra
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. suffrutescens
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. valida
TJM2:	Phacelia ramosissima var. ramosissima

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 12 / 3 CCH Alpine: 23 / 19 CCH Amador: 1 / 1 CCH Butte: 6 / 5 CCH Contra Costa: 3 / 0 CCH El Dorado: 25 / 22 CCH Fresno: 25 / 23 CCH Glenn: 3 / 3 CCH Inyo: 57 / 51 CCH Kern: 68 / 63 CCH Lake: 8 / 7 CCH Lassen: 15 / 15 CCH Los Angeles: 204 / 150 CCH Madera: 3 / 3 CCH Mendocino: 4 / 0 CCH Mono: 76 / 69 CCH Monterey: 81 / 59 CCH Modoc: 16 / 16 CCH Mariposa: 11 / 9 CCH Marin: 2 / 2 CCH Napa: 1 / 1 CCH Nevada: 12 / 10 CCH Orange: 43 / 30 CCH Placer: 7 / 5 CCH Plumas: 1 / 1 CCH Riverside: 73 / 58 CCH Santa Barbara: 112 / 94 CCH San Bernardino: 108 / 103 CCH San Benito: 8 / 3 CCH Santa Clara: 8 / 6 CCH Santa Cruz: 16 / 12 CCH San Diego: 173 / 158 CCH San Francisco: 6 / 0 CCH Sierra: 6 / 6 CCH Siskiyou: 14 / 11 CCH San Luis Obispo: 62 / 53 CCH San Mateo: 7 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 0 CCH Tehama: 1 / 1 CCH Trinity: 3 / 3 CCH Tulare: 74 / 63 CCH Tuolumne: 15 / 14 CCH Ventura: 99 / 76 CCH Yolo: 3 / 2 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Phacelia ramosissima from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (PHRA2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database