Gilia leptantha Parish is a plant in the Polemoniaceae family, order Ericales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Gilia leptantha Parish

Gilia leptantha Parish

Gilia leptantha is a small mostly erect herb with lobed basal leaves and pink to lavender flowers with yellow and white throats.

Family
Genus
Gilia
Order
Ericales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Gilia leptantha Parish

Gilia leptantha is a small, mostly erect herb. Its stem is glandular and often covered in cobwebby fibers. Its leaves grow in a rounded basal rosette, and each leaf is sharply divided into many smaller subdivided lobes. The inflorescence at the top of the stem holds a small number of pink to lavender flowers, which have yellow and white throats. The base of each flower is a thin, glandular tube.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Polemoniaceae Gilia

More from Polemoniaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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