| Taxon | Phacelia hastata var. compacta |
| 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) | hastate phacelia; hastate scorpion-weed; hastate scorpion weed; hastate scorpionweed; lance-leaf phacelia; lanceleaf phacelia; spearhead phacelia; silver-leaved phacelia; silver-leafed phacelia; silver-leaf phacelia; silverleaf phacelia; silver-leaf scorpion-weed; silverleaf scorpion-weed; silverleaf scorpionweed; white-leaved phacelia; white-leafed phacelia; white leafed phacelia; white-leafed scorpion-weed; white-leaf phacelia; white leaf phacelia; whiteleaf phacelia; timberline phacelia |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | spear-shaped phacelia [var. dasyphylla]; spearshaped phacelia [var. dasyphylla] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | mountain phacelia, mountain scorpion-weed, mountain scorpionweed, mountain scorpion weed, Brand's phacelia, Brand phacelia are applied to multiple Phacelia taxa; silky phacelia is more commonly applied to Phacelia sericea; caterpillar-weed, caterpillar weed, caterpillarweed, scorpion-weed, scorpionweed, scorpion weed are applied to multiple Boraginaceae taxa |
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| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Hydrophyllaceae; subsp. compacta (Brand) Heckard; subsp. dasyphylla (Greene ex J.F. Macbr.) Heckard; Phacelia frigida Greene subsp. frigida |
