Gilia latiflora

Broad-flowered gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Broad-flowered gilia is a native annual herb found in California at elevations suitable for its prostrate, tufted growth pattern. Flowering from early spring to summer, this plant produces showy, fragrant flowers with a purple corolla tube, white lobe bases, and lavender tips measuring 9 to 35 millimeters long. Growing with ascending branches and a rosette of strap-shaped basal leaves 2 to 7 centimeters long, it has tufted-woolly hairy foliage that is distinctively toothed or lobed. Its basal leaves form a dense tuft with spreading lobes, while smaller cauline leaves clasp the stem and are often entire or slightly lobed at the base. The fruit is ovoid to obovoid, generally larger than the calyx and measuring 3 to 9 millimeters long.

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Imperial, Tulare, 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.