phacelia tanacetifolia

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   hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers

   Synonymsfiddleneck

   Broaderscorpionweed

Questions about phacelia tanacetifolia

What does phacelia tanacetifolia mean?

phacelia tanacetifolia means "hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers".

What is another word for phacelia tanacetifolia?

Close synonyms include fiddleneck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phacelia tanacetifolia a common word?

phacelia tanacetifolia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.