The stream drainage here is filled from top to bottom with these phacelia flowers and mayapples. There are honeybees swarming all over them.
Every time I have seen wild patches of these, they are growing among or on top of big, mossy boulders.
Growing on open forest floor among red trillium. The bluebead lilies were close by and the hill of pixie-parasol was not far away on the opposite side of a draining stream
On ground in swamp with northern white cedar. 24-102. Patch of yellowish green prostrate plants. Branching 2-3 pinnate. Leaves with 4-5 very narrow lobes nearly to base, secondarily lobed and abundantly fringed with cilia.