[3] It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta south to California and east to Nebraska.

[1] It can be found in many types of habitat, including scrub, woodland, and forest, up to an elevation of 13,000 feet.

[5] Phacelia hastata is a variable perennial herb with a stem 5 to 92 centimeters (2 to 36 in) long.

[3] The deeply veined, gray-green leaves are lance-shaped to oval, and smooth-edged, lobed, or divided into leaflets.

[5] They have an urn- or bell-shaped white or lavender fused corolla about 4 to 7 millimeters long.