Ipomopsis aggregata subsp. bridgesii

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Scarlet gilia is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in forest openings and woodland at elevations of 1,800 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces scarlet tubular flowers in small clusters of 1 to 5 blooms, with distinctive blue pollen. Growing with delicate stems up to one meter tall, it develops slender, deeply lobed leaves with rounded leaflet tips. Its leaf lobes are blunt to rounded, creating an elegant, finely divided foliage structure. The flowers feature small calyx lobes 1 to 2 millimeters long, with 1 to 4 stamens extending beyond the flower's throat.

Habitat: Openings in forests, woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1800-3300 m

Bioregions: SNH.

California counties: Fresno, Mono, Tulare, Mariposa, Kern, Inyo, Madera, Tuolumne, Alpine, Plumas, Sierra, Lassen, Siskiyou, Amador

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