About Aliciella leptomeria (A.Gray) J.M.Porter
Aliciella leptomeria, previously classified as Gilia leptomeria, is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family. It has two widely used common names: sand gilia and Great Basin gilia. This plant is native to the Western United States, and grows in a variety of habitat types including the sagebrush areas of the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. It is a small herb that grows a thin, branching stem reaching roughly 23 centimeters in maximum height. The entire plant is covered in glandular hairs. A basal rosette of several deeply lobed leaves, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long, forms at ground level around the base of the stem. Smaller, unlobed leaves grow along the stem itself. The inflorescence produces between one and three flowers, each approximately half a centimeter wide with a very thin, thread-like tube. The corolla is white stained with purple, the throat of the flower is yellowish, and the tube is purple.
