Allophyllum gilioides

Dense false gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Dense false gilia is a California native annual found in dry, open areas at low to moderate elevations in western California. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces dark blue-purple flowers with delicate 1 to 3 millimeter lobes in small clusters of 2 to 8 blooms. Growing with slender stems covered in short, glandular hairs, it reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. Its leaves are distinctively narrow, with linear to lance-shaped lobes 2 to 4 millimeters wide, typically divided into 0 to 11 segments. Each flower produces a single black seed per chamber, nestled within its delicate inflorescence.

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, San Diego, Riverside, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, San Benito, Tehama, Monterey, Colusa, Placer, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Shasta, Santa Barbara, Inyo, Stanislaus, Nevada, Alpine, Mono, Lake, Contra Costa, Fresno, Tuolumne, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Glenn, Merced, Siskiyou, Napa, Plumas, Butte, Sierra, Solano, Mariposa

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