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Read more about Fringed Phacelia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phacelia fimbriata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
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)
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 (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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.