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Coyote gilia

Aliciella triodon

Coyote gilia
Photo: Steve Matson, CC BY 4.0
Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
SW. U.S.A. to Colorado
Climate
temperate

About

Aliciella triodon (formerly Gilia triodon) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name coyote gilia. It is native to the American desert southwest from California to New Mexico, where it grows in desert habitat such as scrub and woodland. This small herb produces a thin, glandular stem not more than about 13 centimeters tall. The stem is surrounded by a basal rosette of fleshy, sharp-lobed leaves each up to 2 centimeters long. There are sometimes smaller, unlobed leaves on the stem itself. The inflorescence is a solitary flower or loose array of two or three flowers each about 5 to 7 millimeters wide. Each flower has a hair-thin tubular throat opening into a whitish corolla. The corolla lobes each have three distinct teeth.

Where it grows

Aliciella triodon is native to eight western US states, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Other Aliciella plants

Rabbit Valley gilia · Aztec gilia · Broad-leaf gilia · Sand gilia · Dainty gilia · Black Canyon gilia · Stonecrop gilia · Pinyon gilia · Coral gilia · Mussentuchit Creek gilia · Aliciella

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aliciella triodon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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