Common name: Blue curls, spiderflower, phacelia, caterpillars
Family: Boranginaceae
Subfamily: Hydrophyllaceae
Size: up to 1 meter long
Description: Upright, leafy, breaks easily, likes sun and shade, hairy
Habitat: Various soils
Flower:
- 1 cm across
- 5 petals, blue to blue-violet, united at the base
- stamens 5, protruding from flower
- Flowers numerous in coiled clusters that uncurl as buds develop
Leaves and stem:
- 10 cm long leaves, wide, alternate, deeply cut, toothed lobes
- Stem brittle, branched in upper portion
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