Gilia ochroleuca subsp. vivida

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Gilia ochroleuca subsp. vivida is a California native annual found in the Tehachapi Mountains and southern Great Basin in rocky or sandy pine forest habitats at elevations of 1,500 to 2,700 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces flowers with a distinctive purple tube and yellow-to-deep-violet throat approximately 9 to 14 millimeters long. Growing low and spreading with dark gray-green stems, it forms a delicate mat-like structure across rocky terrain. Its leaves are densely woolly-hairy and intricately divided into fine, linear lobes, creating a soft, tufted appearance across the plant's structure. The fruit is small and spherical, measuring 2.5 to 3.7 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: Common. Rocky or sandy soil, pine forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1500-2700 m

Bioregions: Teh, SnGb.

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, Riverside, Los Angeles

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