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Gilia diegensis
Coastal gilia (Gilia diegensis) is a small annual wildflower in the phlox family, native to southern California and Baja California. It grows in forest and scrub habitat and in nearby deserts, and is grown as a native wildflower in dry, sunny gardens.
Gilia diegensis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name coastal gilia.
It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in forest and scrub habitat in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and the deserts to the east.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gilia diegensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
