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Gilia tricolor
Also called Bird's Eyes
Bird's-eye gilia is a low-growing annual wildflower native to California, valued for its small funnel-shaped flowers that show violet-blue, white and yellow markings. It grows easily from seed in sunny, well-drained spots, and it is best sown directly outdoors.
Gilia tricolor (bird's-eyes, bird's-eye gilia, tricolor gilia) is an annual flowering plant in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae).
It is native to the Central Valley and foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges in California. Its native habitats include open, grassy plains and slopes below 2,000 feet (610 m). However, there has been some sighting reported on iNaturalist in Western Washington and Southern Western Canada.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gilia tricolor 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.
