Gilia clokeyi

Clokey's gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Clokey's gilia is a California native annual found in the eastern Sierra Nevada, eastern Mojave Desert, and Desert Mountains on open, rocky slopes and sandy washes at elevations of 400 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from March to June, this delicate plant produces white flowers with distinctive yellow spots at the base and occasional blue streaks, about 4 to 7 millimeters long. Growing with tufted-woolly stems 8 to 17 centimeters tall that are glandular toward the upper portion, it forms compact clusters in rocky terrain. Its basal leaves develop in a rosette, gray-green in color, with 1 to 2 pinnate lobes that spread outward and have short pointed tips. The fruit is spherical or widely ovoid, measuring 3 to 6 millimeters long and containing 9 to 24 seeds.

Habitat: Open, rocky slopes, sandy washes, generally limestone

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 400-2500 m

Bioregions: SNE, e DMoj, DMtns

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, San Diego

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