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Hughes's phacelia (Phacelia hughesii)

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Photo by Walter Fertig ; Walter Fertig
Walter Fertig iNaturalist observation 2014; Walter Fertig iNaturalist observation 2014

Hughes's phacelia

Hughes's phacelia (Phacelia hughesii)

Photo by Walter Fertig ; Walter Fertig
Walter Fertig iNaturalist observation 2014; Walter Fertig iNaturalist observation 2014

Phacelia hughesii

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2
State (S-rank): S1

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Threats or limiting factors

The main threats are from habitat degradation due to grazing, energy and mineral extraction, drought, and road maintenance. Almost all observations of this plant in the Utah Rare Plant Database reported farming and ranching as a threat at the only known occurrence of this plant in Utah. May also be impacted by the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline project.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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