OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia covillei   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

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

Phacelia covillei

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Phacelia covillei

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-004:

Phacelia ranunculacea   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Phacelia ranunculacea

 

COMMON NAME:
Coville's Phacelia, Eastern Buttercup Phacelia


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image of Phacelia covillei, Coville's Phacelia, Eastern Buttercup Phacelia

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_phco30_001_lvd

        

image of Phacelia covillei, Coville's Phacelia, Eastern Buttercup Phacelia

Samantha Tessel    sam_2666

April    Orange County    NC

Flowers tiny, tubular, pale blue to lavender, ~ 1/5" long, with only slightly spreading lobes, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.


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image of Phacelia covillei, Coville's Phacelia, Eastern Buttercup Phacelia

Samantha Tessel    sam_2667

April    Orange County    NC

Leaves tend to be blue-green as opposed to the bright green leaves of Nemophila, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia covillei   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Phacelia covillei

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-004:
Phacelia ranunculacea   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Phacelia ranunculacea

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4762

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Rich soils of floodplains, and contiguous terraces and slopes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple: Pinnately or ternately divided
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring
Pale blue or lavender
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed tubular-campanulate corolla
5 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence a helicoid cyme

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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