Gilia aliquanta is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name puffcalyx gilia.[1] It is native to the Sierra Nevada mountains and deserts of southeastern California and southern Nevada.
Gilia aliquanta | |
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G. aliquanta amongst yellow Eriophyllum wallacei | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Polemoniaceae |
Genus: | Gilia |
Species: | G. aliquanta |
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Gilia aliquanta A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant | |
It is a small herb producing a thin, spreading stem up to about 16 centimeters long, sometimes laced with cobwebby fibers. The fleshy, lobed leaves are each 1 to 3 centimeters long and located in a cluster around the base of the stem. The glandular inflorescence bears one or more flowers, each between one and two centimeters in total length.[2] The base of the flower is a puffy saclike calyx of sepals which is ribbed, thin and membranous between the ribs and purple to purple spotted in color. The face of the flower is a lavender to purple corolla. The fruit is a valved, oval capsule.
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