Gilia achilleifolia

California gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

California gilia is a California native annual herb found in various bioregions in open grasslands, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral at elevations ranging from near sea level to 1,500 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces lavender or white flowers 5 to 21 millimeters long with spreading corolla lobes. Growing with slender stems 15 to 70 centimeters tall that are glabrous or slightly hairy near the base, it develops delicate branching structures. Its basal leaves form a distinctive rosette with finely divided, linear lobes 3 to 25 millimeters long that spread in slightly curved patterns. The plant produces between 9 to 21 seeds, creating delicate seed clusters in its terminal inflorescences.

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, Fresno, San Joaquin, Tulare, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Merced, San Benito, Orange, San Diego, Marin, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Tehama, Tuolumne, San Francisco, Stanislaus, Kern, El Dorado

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.