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Phacelia minor
Also called California Bluebell, Whitlavia
Phacelia minor, known as wild Canterbury bells or Whitlavia, is a native California and Baja California annual wildflower with lavender to blue-purple bell-shaped flowers. It is a wildflower of chaparral and recently burned ground, and it is grown for its showy blooms as a garden annual where conditions suit it.
Phacelia minor, with the common names Whitlavia and wild Canterbury bells, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae. It is native to Southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the Colorado Desert and the coastal and inland mountains of the Transverse-Peninsular Ranges, often in chaparral and areas recently burned.
California phacelia · Desertbells · Lacy phacelia · Scorpionweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phacelia minor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
