| Accepted name: |
Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth. |
| Synonym(s): |
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| English names: |
Tansy-leaved Milkvetch
Fiddleneck
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| French names: |
Phacelie à feuilles de tanaisie
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Solanales
Family: Hydrophyllaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HPHATA
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Grown as annual ornamental in Europe since the mid-19th cent. For more than a century also cultivated as fodder for livestock, as green manure, and especially for bee-keeping in parts of USA, in Europe, Caucasus, W Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Korea(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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