Gilia capitata subsp. mediomontana

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Gilia capitata subsp. mediomontana is a California native annual found in northern and central Sierra Nevada on open, rocky slopes at elevations of 900 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces pale blue-violet to white flowers in compact heads 12 to 25 millimeters wide. Growing with erect stems 15 to 40 centimeters tall, it has stems leafy below the middle and branching somewhat. Its leaves form an open basal rosette, intricately divided into 1 to 2 pinnate lobes. The small flowers have linear corolla lobes approximately 1 millimeter wide, with a hairy calyx featuring erect to recurved acute lobes.

Habitat: Open, rocky slopes

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 900-2100 m

Bioregions: n&ampc SN.

California counties: El Dorado, Placer, Amador, Tuolumne, Sierra, Plumas, Butte, Mariposa, Tulare, Colusa, Nevada, Lassen, Calaveras, Fresno, Stanislaus

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