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Phacelia tanacetifolia
Also called Phacelia, Fiddleneck, Tansy Phacelia, Scorpion Weed, Lacy Scorpion Weed, Tansy Scorpion Weed, Facelia
Lacy phacelia is a fast-growing annual wildflower with lacy, fern-like leaves and blue to lavender bell-shaped flowers, grown mainly as a bee-attracting cover or green manure crop. It is grown from seed sown in spring or late summer, and it needs open, sunny ground.
Phacelia tanacetifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae, known by the common names lacy phacelia, tansy-leaf phacelia, blue tansy, purple tansy or fiddleneck (UK).
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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.
