Taxon: Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.

Common names:

• fiddleneck   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• phacelia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• tansy phacelia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• phacélie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• phacélie à feulles de tanaisie   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• phacelia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Büschelschön   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Phazelie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• facelia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• honungsfacelia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – 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)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte [n.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria
  Southwestern Europe: France

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phacelia tanacetifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phacelia tanacetifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phacelia tanacetifolia.

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 Database 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

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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