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Pine Bee Flower

Phacelia imbricata

Photo by HemaShah
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Description:

wild flower of california

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (13)
HemaShah
Thanks, Oxy Jack.!! I will upload it as another spotting then I am going to leave this picture here for comparison. But this one is truly a bee flower. The bees just loved it!
oxyjack
I think the second picture may be another species of Phacelia. It looks like the flowers are a pale purple, and instead of having two curls unfurling across from each other, this seems to have 5-7 of them all unfurling from a central point. But they are opening in the same way, from the base outward to the tips.
HemaShah
Wow Cindy you are simply amazing.and so is Oxy jack! Thanks to both of you.
CindyBinghamKeiser
Wikipedia - The flower buds are held in tight, hairy coils which uncoil as the flowers open one by one.
HemaShah
Check pic 2 out. these were side by side. Little confusing.
CindyBinghamKeiser
Oxyjack nailed the genus. Species would be tricky with this one pic. Check out mine: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/10009040
HemaShah
It does look like that. Next time I am on that side I will take more pictures and have a better look.
HemaShah
Thanks Oxy jack. i will check that soon.
oxyjack
Check out Phacelia imbricata.
oxyjack
It's some kind of Phacelia, I think.
Ava T-B
I think this is a heliotrope.

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Wild Flowers Of Mt Diablo and surrounding open space
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PublishedApril 25, 2012

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