| Scientific Name: | Phacelia tanacetifolia |
| Common Name: | fiddleneck, lacy phacelia |
| Family Name: | Boraginaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Dentate, Incised, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Blue, Violet, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate, most 5-13cm long x 4-8cm wide, deeply lobed cut into leaflet-like lobes which are also lobed and toothed; inflorescence a coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers, blue-lavender, <1cm long except for protruding stamens. | |