White Phacelia Phacelia alba Waterleaf family (Hydrophyllaceae)
Compare this Phacelia with the other members of the Waterleaf Family (Hydrophyllaceae). They have delicate flowers with an exotic, very appealing beauty. Unfortunately some of this beauty (the plant's juices) can be severely irritating to some people. Look, but don't touch. Per Axel Rydberg named and described this plant in 1901 from specimens that he and Vreeland collected in July of 1900 along Sangre de Cristo Creek in Colorado.
plant from 2 to 48" tall. Stems simple to branched, leafy, hairy, and . Leaves from 1 to 4" long, short-hairy and somewhat , lowermost long-, upper . of dense scorpioid clusters. white to lavender or pale blue, tubular-, 1-2" long and wide, . well to 1/6". . a , hairy and sticky.