Phacelia minor, with the common names Whitlavia and wild Canterbury bells, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrophyllaceae. It is native to Southern California and Baja California, where it grows in the Colorado Desert and the coastal and inland mountains of the Transverse-Peninsular Ranges, often in chaparral and areas recently burned.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Wild canterbury bells being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Phacelia
- Species
- Phacelia minor
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