Phacelia quickii is a species of phacelia

Phacelia

Phacelia is a genus of about 200 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants, native to North and South America....

 known by the common name Quick's phacelia.

Description

Phacelia quickii is an annual herb growing decumbent or erect with a stem reaching up to 18 centimeters long. It is hairy and sometimes glandular. The leaves are linear or lance-shaped and up to 5 centimeters long. The inflorescence

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

 is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is about half a centimeter long, lavender to blue or white in color, and surrounded by a calyx of long, narrow sepal

Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms . Collectively the sepals form the calyx, which is the outermost whorl of parts that form a flower. Usually green, sepals have the typical function of protecting the petals when the flower is in bud...

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Distribution

It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, where it can be found on granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

substrates in mountain habitat.

External links

• Phacelia quickii - Photo gallery