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Phacelia mohavensis
Phacelia mohavensis is a species of phacelia, known by the common names Mojave phacelia. and Mojave scorpionweed. It is endemic to southern California, where it grows in the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains along dry stream beds. The name P. mohavensis originally also referred to plants now treated as P. exilis, but the two taxa are currently recognized as distinct species, distinguishable by flower morphology and distribution.
Phacelia mohavensis grows exclusively in the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains of California, in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. It grows in sandy and gravelly substrates, often by dry stream beds. Its elevational range is 900–2570 m. Despite its narrow geographic range, the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California does not consider P. mohavensis to be a threatened species.
Glandular yellow phacelia · Limestone phacelia · Aven Nelson's phacelia · Sanddune phacelia · Attwood's phacelia · Southern Sierra phacelia · Fernleaf phacelia · Bolander's phacelia · Shortlobe phacelia · Brewer's phacelia · California phacelia · Calthaleaf phacelia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phacelia mohavensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
