Phacelia minor(Harv.) Thell.

wild canterbury bells

WFO wfo-0001066889 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Phacelia minor, photographed by Vasily Reinkymov
fig. a Vasily Reinkymov, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 196088887
Phacelia minor, photographed by velodrome
fig. b velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196115464
Phacelia minor, photographed by velodrome
fig. c velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195816118
Phacelia minor, photographed by velodrome
fig. d velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195816031
Phacelia minor, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. e Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191419836
Phacelia minor, photographed by velodrome
fig. f velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195815855
Phacelia minor, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. g Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191416842
Phacelia minor, photographed by velodrome
fig. h velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195815813

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Flowering n = 2,526 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 2,526 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Phacelia whitlavia A.Gray
  • Phacelia whitlavia f. minor (Harv.) Brand
  • Whitlavia gloxinioides J.Hill Dicks.
  • Whitlavia grandiflora Harv.
  • Whitlavia minor Harv.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.