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Gilia
By Sanmcgill
Gilia - Hardy Californian annuals, 1 to 2 feet high, and bearing for a long time a succession of blossoms either blue, white, lavender, or rose-colored.
Gilia tricolor (Bird's-eyes) is an annual plant native to the Central Valley and foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges in California.
[edit] Subspecies ...
Gilia ophthalmoides. Synonym: Gilia inconspicua. (Gilia)
Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family) ...
Spiked Gilia
Ipomopsis spicata (Nutt.) V. Grant
Synonym: Gilia spicata
Family: Polemoniaceae, Phlox
Genus: Ipomopsis ...
Blooming Habits:
The Gilia tricolor bears scented, trumpet-shaped, pale lavender to pink flowers with violet and golden throats and prominent blue stamens. The flowers attract hummingbirds. When dried, they retain their color.
Ipomopsis rubra, Gilia rubra
Family: Polemoniaceae
Standing Cypress, Scarlet Gilia
Origin: USA ...
blue field gilia Gilia capitata
blue lawn grass Garnotia stricta
blue lettuce Lactuca tatarica
blue mustard; chorispora Chorispora tenella
blue panicum Panicum antidotale
blue-gray barley Hordeum murinum ssp. glaucum ...
They include gaillardia, gazania (some flower all year), gerbera, geraniums, gladioli, globe amaranth, globe gilia, godetia, gypsofila, hibiscus (variegated and other, as bushes or hedges), hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangeas, ...
Gilia laciniata and linifolia.
Godetia Duchess of Albany, Prince of Wales, Fairy Queen, Brilliant, grandiflora maculata, Whitneyi, Duke of Fife, rubicunda splendens.
Helipterum corymbiflorum.
Iberis affinis.
The family includes many popular wild and garden flowers, especially the genera Phlox, Polemonium (called Jacob's ladder), and Gilia, a plant common in desert and mountain areas.
Ipomopsis aggregata. Scarlet Gilia (white). Chatfield State Park, Colorado.
Collomia linearis. Narrowleaf Mountain Trumpet.
Collomia linearis. Narrowleaf Mountain Trumpet.
Scotsman David Douglas (1798-1834) collected plants from Hudson Bay to California for the Royal Horticultural Society (London), bringing back many wild flowers (such as Clarkia, Gilia, Mahonia, Mimulus).
Cladrastis kentukea (lutea)
Yellowwood, American Yellowwood, Virgilia
Leguminosae ...
 See also: May, Cypress, Pink, Green, Evergreen
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