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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
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Read more about Fringed Phacelia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Phacelia fimbriata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-006:
Phacelia fimbriata FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Phacelia fimbriata
COMMON NAME:
Fringed Phacelia, Blue Ridge Phacelia
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_phfi2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140417_003
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Calyx segments linear to spatulate, obtuse, per Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions (Britton & Brown, 1913).
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JK Marlow jkm140417_006
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Upper leaves sessile, clasping, pinnately lobed; lower stalked, oft compound, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm140417_118
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Inflorescence usually 5-15 flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm140418_377
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
It sometimes puts on extensive massed displays of bloom in spring, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Keith Bradley kab_p_fimbriata_1857
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm070519_109
May Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Fruits are capsules with 2-4 seeds, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm080504_028
May Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Five epipetalous stamens [that is, five stamens fused to the corolla], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm080504_031
May Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
White flowers 3/8" wide, with deeply fringed lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Phacelia fimbriata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-05-006:
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Phacelia fimbriata
1900
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Moist forests on slopes and floodplains, at low to high elevations, perhaps mainly over circumneutral soils, often locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Mountains
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple: pinnately lobed or cleft
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Cream/White
(rarely lavender)
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate-rotate corolla
5 weakly exserted stamens, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescence a helicoid cyme
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p016
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p155
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p076
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p211
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p223
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p209
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p246
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p419
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p135
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