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Inland gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Inland gilia is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi, and Western Transverse Ranges in rocky slopes, open woodland, and scrub at elevations of 700 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces lavender flowers with purple tube and yellow throat, 6 to 11 millimeters long, marked with a purple spot at the base of the flower lobes. Growing with spreading branches 6 to 13 centimeters tall, the plant forms a tufted cluster with woolly-hairy stems that become glandular near the flower clusters. Its basal leaves form a rosette with pinnate lobes that spread outward, each lobe 1 to 2 times the width of the leaf axis and potentially toothed or entire. The fruit is a narrow ovoid structure 3 to 6 millimeters long, containing 9 to 27 seeds.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, open woodland, scrub

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 700-1700 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, WTR.

California counties: Kern, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Tulare, Inyo, Alpine

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