Gilia tenuiflora subsp. amplifaucalis

Trumpet-throated gilia, Trumpet-Throated Gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Trumpet-throated gilia is a California native annual found in south-central coastal ranges in sandy soil of dry creeks, floodplains, and slopes at elevations of 39 to 900 meters. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces showy flowers with a distinctive purple-throated corolla 13 to 22 millimeters long, featuring a wide throat 3.7 to 5 millimeters across. Growing with stout stems 16 to 24 centimeters tall, the plant can be glabrous or have tufted woolly hairs near the base with glandular upper portions. Its flower clusters are dense and notable, with a calyx 4 to 5.8 millimeters long that is tufted-woolly or slightly glandular. The small fruit measures 5 to 8 millimeters long and remains shorter than the plant's calyx.

Habitat: Sandy soil of dry creeks, floodplains, slopes

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: 39-900 m

Bioregions: SCoRI.

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