Greek phakelos — cluster, referring to the dense flower clusters in this genus.
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, simple and lobed, or pinnate. Flower clusters 1-sided and generally coiled. Corolla white, blue or purple. Stamens sometimes protruding. Fruit capsule roundish.
Grown as 1 species for the delicate ferny foliage and bee-attracting flower clusters.
Seed.
Bee-attracting.
Finely dissected leaves and pale lavender flowers in coiled clusters.
150 species from W North America.
Source: (2002). Hydrophyllaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
