Taxon: Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.

Genus:

Phacelia

Family:

Hydrophyllaceae

Nomen number:

27492

Place of publication:

J. Lindley, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: t. 1696. 1834 (Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17:280; Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1:479. 1835)

Comment:

authorship and place of publication verified from original literature

Name Verified on:

12-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 10-May-2007

Species priority site is:

North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)

Accessions:

4 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Common names:

fiddleneck (Source: Hortus 3) - English
phacelia (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
tansy phacelia (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
phacelia (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
phacélie (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
phacélie à feulles de tanaisie (Source: L Noms French ed7) - French
Büschelschön (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Phazelie (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
facelia (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
honungsfacelia (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Bee plants: honey production (fide Hortus 3; Pl Book; F Eur)
Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; F CalifJep)
Environmental: soil improver (as cover crop fide Cover Crop Database)
Weed: potential seed contaminant (contaminant of crop & grass seed fide F BritStace; F SonorDes)

Distributional Range:

Native:

Northern America
- Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte
- Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, - California, - Nevada

Naturalized:

Australasia
- Australia: Australia - New South Wales, - South Australia
- New Zealand: New Zealand
Europe
- Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria
- Southwestern Europe: France

Cultivated:

. also cult.

Adventive:

Asia-Temperate
- Western Asia: Cyprus
Europe
- Southeastern Europe: Italy

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. 1961- (F NZeal)
Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7. 2001 (L Noms French ed7)
Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984- (L Medit)
Hickman, J. C., ed. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. 1993 (F CalifJep)
Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990 (L Aust)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). (Aust Pl Common Names)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. 1964 (F SonorDes)
Stace, C. New flora of the British Isles. 1995 (F BritStace)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). (Cover Crop Database)
Wiggins, I. L. Flora of Baja California. 1980 (F Baja)

Synonyms:

(=) Phacelia tanacetifolia subvar. tenuisecta Brand

Check other web resources for Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth. :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image