Gilia clivorum

Purplespot gilia, Purplespot Gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Purplespot gilia is a California native annual found in southern North Coast Ranges, Central Western California, Channel Islands, Western Transverse Ranges, Southern California, and Peninsular Ranges in open, grassy areas at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from February to June, this plant produces pale yellow flowers with purple spots and light blue or white lobes in small open clusters of 2 to 5 blossoms. Growing with spreading or erect branches 6 to 30 centimeters tall and covered in sparse woolly or shaggy hairs, it forms a lightly tufted habit. Its basal leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters long, intricately divided into 1 to 2 pinnate levels with narrow, ascending linear lobes. The small ovoid fruit contains 24 to 36 seeds and separates only in its upper third.

Habitat: Common. Open, grassy areas

Bloom period: Feb-Jun

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: s NCoR, CW, ChI, WTR, SCo, PR

California counties: San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Alameda, Santa Clara, Monterey, Contra Costa, Riverside, Marin, Solano, Madera, Colusa, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Stanislaus, San Mateo, Fresno, San Bernardino, San Benito, Napa, Siskiyou, Merced, Lake, Kern, Inyo, Yolo

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