Gilia ochroleuca

Volcanic gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Volcanic gilia is a California native annual herb found in volcanic landscapes at middle to high elevations. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces delicate flowers with a striking purple tube, yellow proximal throat, and blue distal throat, with pink to white lobes. Growing with slender branching stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall that are either smooth or softly woolly-hairy and often glandular near the flower clusters, it displays intricately divided leaves with linear lobes. Its lower leaves form a rosette and are typically 1 to 2 times pinnately lobed, while upper leaves are palmately arranged with narrow, angled lobes. The fruit is small, spherical, and approximately 2.4 to 5 millimeters long with detachable seed valves.

California counties: Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern, Inyo, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Lassen, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Mono

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