Sabino Canyon 3/14/17
Sabino Canyon 3/14/17
Sabino Canyon 3/14/17
Sabino Canyon 3/14/17
Wildflowers of Southern Arizona
Wild Heliotrope.
Phacelia distans.
Borage (Boraginaceae) Family.
Also called Blue Phacelia and Scorpionweed. Some people develop poison-ivy like allergy to plant. The flowers are atop dense, hairy, terminal, coiled cymes. The individual flowers are tubular, 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) wide, and have 5 broad, rounded lobes. The leaves are green, alternate, hairy, and variably once or twice pinnately divided, which gives them a fern-like appearance. The stems are reddish and hairy.
Rincon Mountains
Saguaro National Park East
3/21/15
Notes: Sabino Canyon 3/14/17.
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