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Lesser Yellowthroat Gilia

Gilia flavocincta

Photo © by Laurie Nessel

Photographed in, Maricopa Co., Arizona. This close-up of the flowers was made and is copyrighted by Laurie Nessel.

Photo © by Mike Nessel

Photographed in, Maricopa Co., Arizona, Spring 2008.

ANNUAL : An ephemeral spring annual usu. apparent in mid spring only in years with adequate rains.

FLOWERS: Bright pink-lavender flowers are arrayed at the tips of long spindly branching inflorescence. There are five points and five blue stamens. The yellow tinge in the throat of the long tubular flower is not always apparent and there is some variation in the flower color. The style is usu. five-branched.

LEAVES: Leaves are narrowly divided with the ultimate divisions thread-like. Most leaves are cobwebby and are crowded near base of plant.

RANGE: Frequent throughout the Sonoran Desert ranging to the east into the Chihuahuan Desert. Found on rocky slopes and in washes. There are many difficult to distinguish Gilia - without careful examination with magnification and expertise identification is suspect.

FRUIT: Dry, three parted capsules with many seeds.

UNARMED. No thorns.

Polemoniaceae -- Phlox Family

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