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Phacelia congesta Hook.

Blue curls, Caterpillars, Fiddleneck
Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf Family)

USDA Symbol: PHCO2
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Phacelia congesta

Blue-Curls, Spike Phacelia

Hydrophyllaceae

Location: Vacant land W of Nachogdoches Rd. & S of Spring Farm St.--San Antonio.
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Open, level, grassy field with many species of other herbaceous plants. This one few, scattered.

Description: Erect, single-stalked annual, to 60 cm tall, much branched, viscid & pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioled; lower ones 1-2 pinnate, uppers binnatified, all hirsute. Infloresence terminal on most branches--scorpoid cymes, to 8 cm long (matured). Flowers blue, campanulate. Fruit a 4-seed, globose capsule, 3-4 mm dia. Seed dk brown, 1x3 mm. Corrugated lengthwise.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Harry Cliffe
 Collection Date: May 11, 1990
 Specimen number: 392

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0583
 Accession Date: Nov 23, 1993
 Accession Number: 44

Annotations: SCFRB

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