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 mostly divided into smaller leaflets, deeply cut into toothed lobes; inflorescence a coiling cyme of bell-shaped florets, blue-lavender, <1cm long except for protruding stamens.