Phacelia purshii: UW-Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium: Plant Details Page

Photographer: Dan Tenaglia

Family Hydrophyllaceae
Phacelia purshii Buckley
[Excluded] Miami-mist, scorpion-weed
Phacelia: based on the Greek phakelos, meaning "cluster," and alluding to the densely crowded flower spikes of most species of the genus
purshii: after Frederická Traugott Pursh (1774-1820), a Saxon explorer, collector, horticulturist and author who received the plant collections from the Lewis and Clark expedition and first to published on them

Status:	Excluded
(Glossary)

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Synonyms

Phacelia bicknellii Small
Phacelia boykinii (A.Gray) Small

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