Gilia latiflora subsp. elongata

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Gilia latiflora subsp. elongata is a California native annual found in western Mojave Desert mountains including Rand, El Paso, and Black Rock Hills on open, sandy slopes at elevations of 700 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces white flowers with yellow throats, delicately veined and measuring 21 to 35 millimeters long. Growing with stems 13 to 32 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctive tufted-woolly hairy appearance below the middle of the plant. Its flowers feature a slender corolla tube more than three times the length of the calyx, with white lobes surrounding a narrow, tapered yellow throat. The fruit is 6 to 9 millimeters long, developing after the plant's brief spring flowering period.

Habitat: Open, sandy slopes

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 700-1900 m

Bioregions: w DMoj (Rand, El Paso mtns, Black Rock Hills).

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