Gilia angelensis

Chaparral gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Chaparral gilia is a California native annual found in central coastal California, eastern San Francisco Bay's Mount Hamilton Range, southern coastal ranges, and southwestern California in open, sandy or rocky, generally grassy areas at elevations of 200 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from February to June, this plant produces delicate white to lavender flowers with yellow throats approximately 6 to 11 millimeters long in small open clusters. Growing with branching erect stems 7 to 70 centimeters tall, the plant has short translucent hairs near its base. Its basal leaves form an upright cluster with 1 to 2 pinnate-lobed divisions, featuring linear leaf lobes that are glabrous or short-hairy. The small ovoid fruits contain 18 to 30 light brown seeds, each less than 1.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Open, sandy or rocky, generally grassy areas

Bloom period: Feb-Jun

Elevation: (5)200-1900 m

Bioregions: CCo, e SnFrB (Mount Hamilton Range), SCoR, SW

California counties: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Ventura, Sacramento, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Merced, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Kern, San Benito

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