Ipomopsis polycladon

Branching gilia

Family: Polemoniaceae · Type: annual · Native

Branching gilia is a California native annual found in the Great Basin and eastern Mojave Desert in sandy and gravelly soils at elevations of 750 to 2,150 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces delicate white flowers less than 6 millimeters long in compact terminal head-like clusters. Growing with decumbent to prostrate stems less than 10 centimeters tall and covered in glandular hairs, the plant has a delicate, spreading form. Its leaves are less than 2 centimeters long, varying from entire to toothed or pinnately lobed with 5 to 7 segments, and are densely clustered near the plant's flowering structure. The small ellipsoid fruit measures less than 5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Sandy, gravelly soils

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 750-2150 m

Bioregions: GB, DMoj

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Mono, Lassen, Nevada

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