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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Phacelia fimbriata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-006:

Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Phacelia fimbriata

 

COMMON NAME:
Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia


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image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_phfi2_001_lvd

        

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm140417_003

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Calyx segments linear to spatulate, obtuse, per Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions (Britton & Brown, 1913).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm140417_006

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Upper leaves sessile, clasping, pinnately lobed; lower stalked, oft compound, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm140417_118

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Inflorescence usually 5-15 flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm140418_377

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

It sometimes puts on extensive massed displays of bloom in spring, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

Keith Bradley    kab_p_fimbriata_1857

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm070519_109

May    Avery County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Fruits are capsules with 2-4 seeds, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm080504_028

May    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Five epipetalous stamens [that is, five stamens fused to the corolla], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Phacelia fimbriata, Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia

JK Marlow    jkm080504_031

May    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

White flowers 3/8" wide, with deeply fringed lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Phacelia fimbriata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-006:
Phacelia fimbriata   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Phacelia fimbriata

 

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1900

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Moist forests on slopes and floodplains, at low to high elevations, perhaps mainly over circumneutral soils, often locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Uncommon in NC Mountains

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LEAVES:
Simple: pinnately lobed or cleft
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Cream/White (rarely lavender)
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate-rotate corolla
5 weakly exserted stamens, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence a helicoid cyme

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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