Latin name: Phacelia nashiana Jepson
  Pronunciation: fa-SEEL-ee-a nash-ee-AY-na

  Common name: Charlotte's phacelia
  Family: Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf)
  Habitat: Pinyon-juniper woodland, joshua tree
  woodland, west Mojave Desert, Tehachapis, Kern
  Co., southern Sierra Nevadas
  Blooming period: May to June
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Phacelia
  2) nashiana
  NOTE: The correct taxonomic position of this species
  vis-à-vis Phacelia campanularia is uncertain.
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