Gilia ochroleuca subsp. ochroleuca
Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native
Gilia ochroleuca is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada, western and Inyo Mountains, and western Mojave Desert in sandy desert habitats at elevations of 600 to 2,050 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces pale flowers with a small corolla 4 to 6 millimeters long. Growing with spreading branches less than 30 centimeters tall, it has a distinctly gray-green appearance with glaucous stems below the flower clusters. Its leaves are tufted and woolly-hairy, with 1 to 2 pinnate-lobed divisions and ascending lobes 3 to 10 millimeters long, with distinctive palmate inflorescence leaves. The fruit is small, spherical, and 2 to 5 millimeters in size.
Habitat: Desert sand
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: 600-2050 m
Bioregions: s SNH, W&I, w DMoj.
California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Tulare, Santa Barbara, San Benito, Ventura
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.