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Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants

Gilia clokeyi - Clokey's gilia

Synonyms: Gilia ophthalmoides ssp. clokeyi
Other Common Names: Clokey's gily-flower
Plant Form: Forb or Subshrub

Family: Polemoniaceae


   
 
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Forb Plant Description

Origin: Native   Life Cycle: Annual
General Desc: Annual to 14 inches tall; stems branched throughout; leaves cobwebby with soft hairs below, covered with glands above.
Identification notes: Stems, leaves sparsely or densely cobwebby; flowers in branching, elongated clusters, white to light purple, throats light blue, 5 pointed petals unite into a tube, tube length usually <2x throat width, styles slightly protruding, anthers blue to purple.
Height: 14 inches


Habitat

Habitat Description: Found on limestone soils, in open sites, shrublands, rocky slopes, sandy washes, and woodland communities.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 1500 - 4200 feet


Flower Characteristics

Color: White to light purple     Shape: Regular in elongated clusters     Tubular: Y     Flowering Period: Mar - Apr
Description: Petals with 5 open, spreading, pointed lobes unite into tube equal in length to sepals; light blue throats and yellow spots at base; blue to purple anthers; flowers borne on paired, spreading, unequal, thread-like stalks of 1 to 2 at branch tips.


Leaf and Stem Characteristics

Leaf Color: Grayish-green     Leaf Type: Simple     Leaf Shape: Pinnatifid     Leaf Margin: Lobed     Leaf Attachment: Basal and alternate     Leaves Clasp: N
Hairs: Leaves and stems     Spines: N
Leaf Description: Basal and alternate, becoming reduced above basal rosette; basal blades have 1 to 2 pinnate lobes (equal on both sides), lobes short-pointed, spreading; upper blades palmate (growing from single point), the middle lobe widest; surfaces grayish-green.


Fruit and Seed Characteristics

Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Round to ovoid capsules to 1/4 inch long, the tips pointed, valves detaching at base.
Seed Notes: Seeds 9 to 24, yellow to brown and gelatinous when wet.



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