Gilia tenuiflora

Greater yellowthroat gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Greater yellowthroat gilia is a California native annual herb found in California's coastal ranges and central western regions in open grasslands and dry slopes. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces bright pink-lavender flowers with white bases, the delicate blossoms 9 to 22 millimeters long with a purple throat. Growing with several spreading branches 10 to 30 centimeters tall, the plant has a distinctive branching structure that can be glabrous or tufted-woolly-hairy at the base. Its leaves form basal clusters with intricate 1 to 2-pinnate lobes, each lobe thin and linear, spreading outward from a slender axis. The fruit is small, ovoid to obovoid, measuring 3.5 to 8 millimeters long and typically not exceeding the flower's calyx.

California counties: San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Los Angeles, San Diego, Kern, Fresno, Riverside, Inyo, Ventura

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