Gilia capitata subsp. pedemontana
Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native
Gilia capitata subsp. pedemontana is a California native annual found in the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, central Sierra Nevada, Sutter Buttes, and northern San Joaquin Valley on open, rocky slopes at elevations of 60 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces pale blue-violet flowers in compact heads 10 to 20 millimeters wide with delicate oblong corolla lobes. Growing with slender stems 30 to 90 centimeters tall, which are either smooth or glandular in texture. Its leaves are intricately divided, featuring 1 to 2 levels of pinnate lobing with fine, delicate segments. The fruit is a small spherical to ovoid capsule 3 to 4.5 millimeters long, contained within a densely hairy calyx.
Habitat: Open, rocky slopes
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: 60-2000 m
Bioregions: CaRF, SNF, n&c SNH, ScV (Sutter Buttes), n SnJV.
California counties: Tulare, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Amador, Nevada, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Sacramento, Tehama, Sutter, Placer, Lake, Yuba, Plumas, Fresno, Sierra, Stanislaus, Madera, San Joaquin
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.