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Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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| Common name |
fiddleneck |
| Family |
boraginaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
blue |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
drought-tolerant, probably requires well-drained soil |
From seed  |
germinates quickly at room temperature
detailed seed-starting info below
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| Seed ripens | early July |
Annual wildflower, native to the Western US desert. Named for the shape of its flowerstalk and inflorescence. The ferny foliage is in itself an asset, even while waiting for bloom.
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| | The fading flowers are intriguing, if not exactly pretty - they look like they want to catch flies and chomp 'm up! |
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Phacelia tanacetifolia
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| elzo Stubbe | Feb 02, 2010 | Great great great green manure |
| Susan | Aug 30, 2010 | I am a horticulture student in the UK. Your photographs and descriptions are very useful for plant identification. Keep up the good work. |
| Andrea | Jun 25, 2011 | I found your page when I was looking for photos that would help me to identify a wild plant in my garden. Actually I mistook it for the dangerous Ambrosia. Thanks to your destailed photos I am now sure it is just a Phacelia. Thank a lot, your website was of great help! And saved the life of the plant ;-) |
- Seed from '06 trade. Baggy 70F (50%G, 4d)
- Seed from '07 garden. Baggy 70F (82%G, 5d). Already very long roots at 5d.
- Seed from '07 garden. Baggy 70F (93%G, 4d). Already very long roots at 4d.
- Seed from '10 garden. Baggy 70F (13%G, 3-5d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (17%G, 3-6d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (4%G, 3-5d)
Clothier says it needs dark to germinate.
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