| Taxon | Phacelia ciliata |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Family common name(s) | borage; boragewort; borageworts; forget-me-not; fiddleneck; waterleaf; water-leaf; water leaf; baby-eyes |
| Genus common name(s) | phacelia |
| Species common name(s) | ciliate phacelia; ciliate scorpion-weed; ciliate scorpionweed; Great Valley phacelia; great valley phacelia; Great Valley scorpion-weed; Great Valley scorpionweed; great valley scorpionweed; valley phacelia; Chinese-lantern phacelia; Chinese lantern phacelia |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Merced phacelia [var. opaca] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | caterpillar-weed, caterpillar weed, caterpillarweed, scorpion-weed, scorpionweed, scorpion weed are applied to multiple Boraginaceae taxa |
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| Notes | Chinese is a proper name, so upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Hydrophyllaceae; var. ciliata; var. opaca J.T. Howell |
