Phacelia crenulata
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Phacelia crenulata is a species of phacelia
native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include notch-leaved phacelia and cleftleaf wild heliotrope.
It is an annual plant
growing 7-60 cm tall, with crenate to deeply lobed leaves
up to 8 to 12 centimeters in length. The flowers are violet to blue-purple in color and up to one centimeter long.
It can produce a skin rash similar to that produced by poison ivy
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Phacelia
Phacelia is a genus of about 200 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants, native to North and South America....
native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include notch-leaved phacelia and cleftleaf wild heliotrope.
It is an annual plant
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...
growing 7-60 cm tall, with crenate to deeply lobed leaves
Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....
up to 8 to 12 centimeters in length. The flowers are violet to blue-purple in color and up to one centimeter long.
It can produce a skin rash similar to that produced by poison ivy
Poison ivy
Toxicodendron radicans, better known as poison ivy , is a poisonous North American plant that is well known for its production of urushiol, a clear liquid compound found within the sap of the plant that causes an itching rash in most people who touch it...
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