This rather handsome weed, with fimbriate-lobed pale-eyed bluish corolla, grows abundantly north and west of Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia, along dirt roads, railroad embankments and adjacent fields, and the banks of the Maury and James rivers. Specimens were taken May 1, 1963 for deposition in the her baria of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and of Lynchburg College. Phacelia Purshii Buckl. is an addition to the Virginia flora. Identification was confirmed by Dr. A. B. Massey.