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Phacelia mustelina
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Phacelia
Species:
P. mustelina
Binomial name
Phacelia mustelina

Phacelia mustelina is an uncommon species of phacelia known by the common names weasel phacelia and Death Valley round-leaved phacelia. It is native to the desert mountains and flats of eastern California (mainly Death Valley and Inyo County) and western Nevada ( Nye County), where it grows in woodland and open scrub habitat.

It is a glandular annual herb growing decumbent or upright to a maximum height around 30 centimeters (1 ft). The toothed rounded leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters (13 to 1+23 in) long with blades borne on petioles. The hairy, glandular inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is up to a centimeter long and deep to light purple to nearly white in color.

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