{"id":416,"date":"2020-03-26T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/?p=416"},"modified":"2020-08-16T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T20:06:57","slug":"phacelia-sericea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/2020\/03\/26\/phacelia-sericea\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Phacelia sericea<\/em> (Graham) A. Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Common name: <\/strong>Silky phacelia \/ Sky pilot (the latter also in use for another unrelated species)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family:<\/strong> Boraginaceae<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Information: <\/strong>This member of the legume (pea\/bean family) is found in open, dry, and rocky sites, as well as forest openings. Found at mid to alpine elevations (Pojar and MacKinnon 2014).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Interesting fact:<\/strong> Phacelia may concentrate gold minerals in its tissues to a level of 55 ppb, and has therefore been used in mineral prospecting (biogeochemical prospecting) (Pojar and MacKinnon 2013)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> An exposed ridgetop part of the headwater basin of North Cinnabar River in South Chilcotin Mtns Provincial Park at an approx. elevation of 2190m. N. Hewitt-S. Wood, July 28 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources and additional resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pojar, J. &amp; MacKinnon, A. (2014). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon &amp; Alaska. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pojar, J. &amp; MacKinnon, A. (2013). Alpine Plants of the Northwest: Wyoming to Alaska. Edmonton, AB. Lone Pine Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.) 2020. <em>E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia<\/em> [eflora.bc.ca]. <a href=\"http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Phacelia%20sericea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Phacelia%20sericea<\/a>. Accessed: <span id=\"lblServerTime\">2020-05-12.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Common name: Silky phacelia \/ Sky pilot (the latter also in use for another unrelated species) Family: Boraginaceae Information: This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50391,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc-taxa","category-boraginaceae-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}